Gov. Abbott’s School Safety Priority, Gone Wrong

We all remember something about the heinous shooting at Santa Fe High School last year.   Gov. Abbott announced in his State of the State address (Feb 5th) that he is “making school safety an emergency item” and put his blessings on SB 10 by Sen. Jane Nelson, this legislative session.  Abbott intends “to address mental health in our schools” and “partner with school districts … to identify and remove students who pose a potential threat.”  While we all want world peace the laws of nature just don’t allow it.  Removing more responsibilities and freedoms (liberty) from more Texans through SB 10 will not render world peace, but it will encourage more psychotropic drug use, specifically for our children.

Should your Local School Assess your Child’s Mental Health?

Would you take your child to a Psychiatrist to learn their ABCs?  If not, then you won’t want your local public school assessing your child’s mental health either.  That’s what SB 10 proposes to do; train our primary school faculty to assess and refer students to psychiatric help.

As Dr. Moira Dolan, Internal Medicine Physician, stated in the Senate Committee hearing on SB 10…
“SB 10 offers a medical approach with medical solutions,  not social, not economic, not skill enhancement or character development.  The medical solution for mental health is one thing – that’s medication….Medical schools are where most of the drug research gets done.”

In other words, if all you have is a hammer, then all tasks must resemble a nail.   Psychiatric medicine uses drugs.

Colleges of Psychiatry are funded by pharmaceutical companies to churn out salesmen for their products known as psychiatrists (good return-on-investment). SB 10 even states the purpose of the bill…
“developing training opportunities for residents and medical students …to expand the psychiatric workforce through training and development opportunities”.
How do they increase these development opportunities?  By supplying more lab rats (children) as training subjects.

SB 10 is directly focusing on our children, as clearly and repeatedly stated by the bill author, Sen. Jane Nelson of Denton County;
“SB 10 focuses on our youth…creating the Child Psychiatry Access Network, or CPAN…and Texas Child Health Access through Telemedicine Program, or TCHAT”.
Sen. Nelson went on to say
“SB 10 provides a training ground” (for the psychiatry colleges).

Use of telemedicine will leave no community unaffected by this mental and behavioral health scoring.

Current Texas law already allows school staff to refer parents to medical professional help, located off of the school campus.  SB 10 is being marketed on our emotions (it’s for the children) while we’re being distracted from the underlying issues…

1) Our schools should not become community health centers, as supported in the Texas Republican Platform;
“Basic Standards: The educational system should focus on basic standards”
“Healthcare in Public Schools: We support parents’ right to choose, without penalty, which medications are administered to their minor children”.

2) Opt-out / Opt-in language can be vague and misleading, especially stuffed in stacks of papers for parents to sign at the beginning of a school year.  The Texas Republican Platform;
“Parental Consent: We support parental consent for all medical care, counseling, etc., for all minors.”

3) If a case is mis-diagnosed, there can be long term irreversible damage to a student’s life and career – even losing Second Amendment Rights, which violates the Texas GOP Platform;
“Right to Self-Defense: We affirm that lawful gun ownership and carry by the people protects us from those who wish to do harm and guards against tyranny by our own government. We call upon our elected officials to resist the narrative that the solution to every problem is less freedom and more regulation, and instead pursue policies that respect freedom while also increasing safety.”
“Red Flag: We oppose monitoring programs, including the Red Flag (that would deprive someone of their right to keep and bear arms without being convicted of a crime or found mentally incompetent by a medical psychiatric professional) or iWatch proposals, and any program that causes gun owners to be investigated by law enforcement or appear before a judge when there is no reasonable cause of a crime committed.”

4) If a parent chooses to seek alternatives or refuse to drug their children, they may find Child Protective Services at their door.  This violates the Texas GOP Platform;
“Healthcare Decisions: Healthcare decisions, including routine preventative care such as immunizations, should be between a patient and healthcare professional and should be protected from government intrusion… Government has no right to mandate specific medical procedures or methods of healthcare.”

What’s Causing Adverse Mental Health in Texas?

Almost every mass shooter has a history of psychotropic drug use; antidepressants, ADHD drugs, antipsychotics, anti-anxiety drugs, and so on.

If drugs are causing adverse mental health, what are the chances that more drugs will reverse adverse mental health?

We should be looking at the environmental changes in the last 50 years and make a correlation such as public schools requiring the ADHD child to take medication or be isolated, vaccinating our children with 50 doses of 14 vaccines before the age of 6, the toxic fluoride that’s added to our water with over-chlorination of our water supply, and consuming genetically-modified produce and meats.  Genetics aren’t the cause of this increase in violent behavior or we would have seen this broad behavior for the last several centuries. No, this is due to environmental changes in the past 50 years, at least.

Overall, this new Texas Mental Health Care Consortium would be run by the 12 university psychiatry departments , with the aid of:
a.) the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (an agency with 60,000 employees and an $80 billion biennial budget),
b.) three (3) nonprofits that focus on mental health care,
c.) local community mental health providers,
d.) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and
e.) any other entity that the university psychiatry departments consider necessary.

SB 10 is a horrible idea

• Potential to label every child in a public school with a mental or behavioral health  score (violation of privacy)
• Potential to score most Texans based on mental or behavioral health  (this based on the broad definition of “community centers” in Chapter 534, Health & Safety Code, see page 1 of SB 10)
• 12 University departments of Psychiatry will be in majority control of this mega consortium (Texas Mental Health Care Consortium), to establish “COMPREHENSIVE CHILD PSYCHIATRY ACCESS CENTERS”, under the guise of expanding the “Behavioral Health Workforce” in order to “increase psychiatric residency training” and ”provide consultation services and training opportunities for pediatricians and primary care providers” (lab rats, a.k.a children)
• Use of telemedicine will leave no community unaffected by this mental / behavioral health scoring

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Governor Abbott announced in February that SB 10 was one of his legislative priorities this session.
Phone Gov. Abbott and tell him he is wrong (512) 463-2000.  School safety IS a concern for all parents but no one can accurately predict disturbing behaviors and schools aren’t the place to asses our childrens’ mental health.   Rather, encouraging teachers and school staff with LTCs (license to carry a firearm) to bring their firearm to school, with publicity campaigns on the new protocols is the most effective and cost efficient measure for any community.  Effectively, get rid of the gun-free/no-self-defense-zones.   It is a misuse of state power to require local schools pay for school marshal(s) at every school, pay for bullet-proof glass on windows and doors, pay for metal detectors, and a myriad of other inventions that have a track record of failure in other public buildings.

Phone your senator and let him/her know of your disappointment.   Not one single senator voted the correct way (“against“) on SB 10 on March 5th.

SB 10 is now over in the House of Representatives, waiting for a committee assignment, a committee hearing, and a vote from the House Reps.  We have an opportunity to kill it in the House.
Phone your state House Representative (CLICK here) and tell him/her that…

• Texas already has laws that allow public schools to refer parents to medical assistance.
• We don’t want our schools turned into mental health guidance centers or training grounds for the university departments of psychiatry!
• We don’t want our children’s school records carrying a misappropriated diagnosis/label that has potential to follow them the rest of their lives.
• We want our schools to return to their original intent  with the classical core content that made America great.   The government has never been a good nanny.   Leave the parenting to those God intended, not government.

Thank you.  Your actions are affecting my posterity’s future.

-Barbara Harless

[graphic above borrowed from a friend on Facebook]