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Psychiatric
and Psychological Gold Digging
Ellen Makkai explained the financial motives behind mental health programs:
�Government and private grants seduce [school] districts into
using these student interrogations, which are then used to convince
benefactors that districts need help�the bigger the problems,
the bigger the prize.� Edward Freeland, associate director of
the Survey Research Center at Princeton University says: �If a
district proves itself to be in rough enough shape,� financial
faucets open.
One self-esteem consultant in the United States was making up to $10,000 a
day, despite no scientific evidence in 20 years that self-esteem programs
have ever worked. An �Anger Management for Youth Program� used in schools
costs $2,500. A Minnesota-based group that studies children�s behavior
and beliefs to identify their �problems� has an annual budget of $10 million.
And in one Mexican state, the Education Department paid around $700,000
for a package of U.S. psychological assessments known as the �Little Happy
Box� for teachers to use on students�-despite education supervisors voting
against their implementation.
�Teen screening� targets government insurance, advising school personnel to
apply for a grant to secure funds to cover mental health services for
students.
Allen Jones, a former investigator at the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector
General, revealed that a comprehensive national policy to screen and treat
�mental illness� relies on �expensive, patented medications of questionable
benefit and deadly side effects, and to force private insurers to pick
up more of the tab.�
Writing in Education Reporter in 2001, Diane Alden, research analyst
with a background in political science and economics, revealed,�Before
the national self-esteem movement began, kids earned self-esteem or absorbed
it naturally from their parents. When they accomplished something, whether
or not they received praise for it, they understood that they had done
something good. � However, as the sociologists and educrats of the �60s
applied the psychological theories to the schools, education went downhill.
The results have been disastrous. Test scores, reading and math ability
of American children have spiraled downward. �
As it turns out, more scientists believe that this overblown self-esteem may
actually be one of the causes of violence in public schools and elsewhere.�
William Bonner, an attorney for the Rutherford Institute, a U.S. civil liberties
organization, says that these programs have led to �a massive invasion
of the family and the rights of individual students through curricula
utilizing psychological programming and experimentation, as well as a
broad spectrum of behavior modification techniques. � The traditional
interests and rights of parents have been trampled upon, as educators
have proceeded on the proposition that professionals know better than
parents how to raise children.�
VIOLENCE AND CRIME rates continue to increase and the outgrowth of
psychiatry�s impact on education has been the dismaying fact that our
criminals are becoming younger. Manuel Sanchez and John Duncan, both 12,
were arrested for the murder of a migrant worker in Washington State,
U.S. According to the police, the boys shot the man after he threw rocks
at them because they were shooting too close to him.
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