Imagine your kids labelled mentally ill after arbitary "testing" imposed on them in their schools, and not because there is anything really wrong with them, but simply because they are active, precocious, normal children. Then imagine them being forced to take sometimes multiple psychoactive drugs to deal with their "disorders" so that they may be allowed to continue to attend school. Far fetched and paranoid? Not at all!
So when we are told what a wonderful thing extended schools are we need to be alert to those controlling this system. With a branch of the Rockefeller Foundation training school sponsors, being a part of big pharma, and with health services attached to schools, we need to open our eyes to the possible ramifications. And if we are going to have more of the likes of Swindon Academy, sponsored by the United Church Schools Trust and Honda, from 0-19, I guess you might need to be drugged to get through it suitably packaged.
"The extended schools and children's centres that I have announced today are early examples of the future of joined up services that we want to see spread across the country.
"The new children's directors, proposed in our recent Children's Green paper, will be responsible for bringing together all children's services in every local authority. They will be responsible for creating Children's Trusts, which will bring together children's professionals into one organisation.
Leslie Hall Headteacher at Acton High School which is becoming an extended school said: "Becoming an extended school means that now our kids will have better access to health and social services, as well as out of school support.
A sudden and unpleasant thought: since there will shortly be made available for 14-19 year olds Diplomas in Health and Social Care, who are growing up in the current climate of medicating children because they are behaving like children, when will the new wave of health workers no longer recognise normal children's behaviour? And be able to discriminate between normal healthy behaviour and genuinely problematic behaviour?
Last edited by Caz on Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:58 am; edited 1 time in total
TeenScreen is a very controversial so-called "diagnostic psychiatric service", aka suicide survey; done on children who are then referred to psychiatric treatment. The evidence suggests that the objective of the psychiatrists who designed TeenScreen is to place children so selected on psychotropic drugs.
"It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs," said Marcia Angell, a medical ethics lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Truth About Drug Companies." She said such programs will boost the sale of antidepressants even after the FDA in September ordered a "black box" label warning that the pills might spur suicidal thoughts or actions in minors. (The New York Post, December 5, 2004)
TeenScreen is based on the thoroughly discredited "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders".
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