Should Texas Schools Conduct Psychiatric Assessments on Children?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. March 6, 2019
Have Texas legislators have filed approximately 150 mental health bills, handing over control of your child's mental health to state and federal government under pressure from Governor Abbott whose high priority for this session is mental health.
Ignoring grassroots opposition, the Senate passed SB10 yesterday and is headed to the House. This legislation, authored by Republican Senator Jane Nelson and signed onto by the other 31 Senators, creates a mental health consortium that establishes a new government bureaucracy outside the core functions of the government.
Texas declined the federal government’s efforts to force Common Core Standards into its schools. Yet now Texas is rushing headlong into implementing the ‘New Common Core.’
The horse is out of the barn! Congress has admitted that Common Core now will be federal law and that it is not about academic learning but rather changing the beliefs, values, behavior and worldviews of students. In a nutshell, the government is conducting psychological profiling of our children.
John Stuart Mill, nineteenth century philosopher, characterized government schools in his 1859 treatise