Eleven Bills to KILL; Seeking Access to Our Children as LabRats for Research & Training

THEY’RE RUSHING THESE BILLS THROUGH – TODAY!

Here are 11 bills that promote MORE “social-emotional” school programs that rob teachers & students of precious academic class time through RESEARCH of childhood behavioral & mental health; all in the name of the Governor’s “school safety” agenda.

CALL Your 2 State LEGISLATORS (Senator & House Rep) (call YOUR Senators on the HJR and HBs, and call YOUR House Rep on the SBs)

Vote NO to…

HB 10 (Thompson, S) “TX Mental & Behavioral Health Research Institute”
HB18 (Price) Mental health training, curriculum, counseling
HB19 (Price) MH/Substance abuse resources for school districts
HB 906 (Thompson, S) Establishing a task force for school mental Health
[The above four bills are moving fastest – Please address these today! Call YOUR senator]

HB 1318 (Moody) MH services to persons younger than 18 years of age
HB 1669 (Lucio) Vesting HHSC with new task/power to develop & implement a comprehensive plan to increase and improve the mental health workforce in Texas
HB 4183 (Parker) Developing a strategic plan to address adverse childhood experiences (We could all be diagnosed with this new “mental disorder”)
HJR 5 (Thompson, S) TX Constitutional Amendment to issue DEBT to research behavioral health issues of children & adolescents (this could be on the Nov. 2019 ballot to amend our state constitution)
SB 10 (Nelson) TX Mental Health Care Consortium: Converts schools into “community mental health providers”
SB 11 (Taylor) Creating Mental Health resources for school districts; Rules to be formed AFTER bill is passed and controlled by Education Commissioner
SB 2282 (West) Health services and mental health education to public school students at school-based health centers

REASONS to VOTE “NO”…

• Uninformed parental consent. TEA says “If you decide not to have your child evaluated, the school district can disagree with your decision.” “The school can use its right to get permission for the evaluation from the TEA.”
  https://texasprojectfirst.org/node/162
• Those who will suffer first are LOW INCOME families, taking advantage of “FREE” health assessments for children AT school. Schools are the 2nd largest client for CPS. Austin ISD Police called CPS 875 times Sep-Dec ‘2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fyHlh8YSk
• These “mental health research” bills put tele-psychiatry programs in the hands of our state’s medical schools – specifically the psychiatry departments.  Psychiatry is about drugs, devices, and the medical model. STOP DRUGGING OUR CHILDREN!!
• Whether it’s through research funding, consulting positions for faculty, or “educational” dollars, drug companies have a major influence on our medical schools (conflict of interest)
• TexasTech’s “TWITR” Project shares data with school officials (consultants & 3rd-party vendors that offer online programs or software).  ANYONE with “a legitimate educational interest”can gain access to the data. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2004/privacy/section_4b.asp
• “TWITR” and “TEEN SCREEN” are dangerously FLAWED and lead to over-labeling and over-medicating of children.
  https://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/dangerously-flawed-teenscreen-mental-health-program-returning-schools/
• Red flag” laws for your children. Instead of losing their guns, they’ll be labeled.  Some will be shunted off to alternative educational placements, or psychiatric hospitals.
• Some parents, who choose to seek alternatives or refuse to drug their children, may find Child Protective Services at their door.  Schools are already the second highest reporter to CPS in our state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fyHlh8YSk
• Children with special needs may be more vulnerable. In Florida, autistic children as young as 7 have been removed from school in handcuffs, and taken to psych hospitals. https://www.fox4now.com/longform/children-in-crisis-floridas-baker-acted-kids
• The large body of research indicates that, even under the best of conditions, psychiatric predictions of long-term future dangerousness are wrong in at least two out of every three cases. – American Psychiatric Association, Amicus Brief- Barefoot v Estelle https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/463/880/
• Ironically, while “mental illness” does not cause violence, there’s a strong link between violence and mind-altering substances.  That’s what psychotropic drugs are.  They alter mood, cognition, and behavior, just like any drug on the street.  Researchers examined FDA adverse event reports and found that psychiatric drugs were disproportionately associated with violence. https://www.cchrint.org/pdfs/violence-report.pdf
• Examples of mass violence UNDER the INFLUENCE include Kendrex White (UT stabber), Devin Patrick Kelley (Sutherland Springs), Stephen Paddock (Vegas), James Holmes (Aurora), Eric Harris (Columbine), and many others. MORE drugs are NOT the solution.

• Parents don’t want tele-psychiatry in our schools.
• Parents don’t want our kids screened for “behavioral” research.
• You can keep the TWITR project out of Texas public schools.