By Alice Linahan | 09.05.2019
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n Sept. 3rd I was honored to be asked to speak at a Concerned Women for America (CWA) meeting in Bridgeport, Texas- to discuss the mental health legislation passed in Texas, in the last legislative session. Below is a video of my talk, where I laid out the history of Education Reform, away from knowledge-based academics, to the behavioral. Below the video, in this post, I will prove psychological evaluations have already been piloted and has been happening in Texas, without parental consent. And, how NOW, through the passage of a combination of legislation, has been codified, into law.1. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
Question: Who decides what “Healthy Relationships” means?
Please take the time to listen below to testimony by a Texas Counselor, who describes what SB 11 will allow if passed. Texas Sen. Bob Hall asks the right questions, exposing how they have the ability, through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), to identify students needing those Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS); WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.
Below is a letter that parents received from Canyon Ridge MS in Leander ISD, letting parents know their 7th grader was diagnosed as needing PYSCHO-SOCIAL intervention according to her STAAR scores.
According to the parents, the child had all A’s, never failed a STAAR test, never in trouble, in athletics, and tons of friends. She was assigned an adult mentor, met with her mentor, and all of her teachers informed of her psycho-social status prior to this letter being sent to parents or for parents consent to be requested.
The parents then contacted their other children’s schools and their other child at LWBE was also labeled as needing psycho-social invention. He had never failed a STAAR test either but somehow the STAAR results determined his psychological needs. Unlike CRMS, Laura Bush Elementary would have never contacted them about his labeling. They only knew to ask since they received the letter from middle school.
This atrocity is “The Medicalization of Our Schools.”
A view from the classroom of today would astound onlookers that mental health and social, emotional, and behavioral interventions have replaced academics. With these wrap-around mental health services and interventions into personalities, values, beliefs, and dispositions at school, teachers are expected and forced to monitor and collect personal behavioral data on our children that has nothing to do with education. Data is collected, logged into state longitudinal data systems, shared, and ultimately, exposes our children to ‘surveillance capitalism.’ This personal data is freely given and used by outside contractors, foundations, and businesses to create software, curricula, activities, and programs that delve into changing the personal qualities of children and their families according to a government set of objectives.
Schools represent a “captive audience” and as such, prime targets for social policy change.
From a purely educational viewpoint, this could be termed “The Destruction of the American Educational System.” From a health care perspective, this could be viewed as “The Subversion of the World’s Finest System of Health Care.” From a societal vantage point, this could be described as “The Subduing of the American Family.”
However, because of the integration of business and labor, this could also just as accurately be dubbed, “The Collectivization of American Capitalism.” Analyzed from a public policy perspective, it could be called “The Demise of Representative Government.” All of these titles would be accurate because each of them describes different appendages of the same program. What is involved in the “Medicalization of Our Schools?”
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