Tag: Parental consent

SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety”

LOW income / LOW information families will be hurt, first.

Here’s just a handful of reasons to OPPOSE the DOZENS of mental health bills in Austin that want to involve our local school campuses, which is code for expanding the market share for the government-supported pharmaceutical companies, by creating a direct avenue for them to perform mental assessments on our children, AT SCHOOL.

Whether it’s through research funding, consulting positions for faculty, or “educational” dollars, drug companies have a major influence on our medical schools.

1992 Congressional Hearing: TX Sen Moncrief – “Hospitals would go into schools and initiate kickbacks to counselors who could find students that had mental health insurance and would then be put into that hospital.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9

“…social workers, school counselors, probation officers, crisis hotline workers and even ministers were paid to refer patients to private psychiatric hospitals. These are people we have all been taught to trust, not avoid.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9  Continue reading “SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety””

We CAN Hold Them Accountable

QUESTION:
WHY do 9000 Texas Republicans take time away from their job and family to pay their own travel expenses and convention fees every 2 years to serve as a delegate to the largest political event in the world; the Texas State Republican Convention?  There are 3 action items that are required to be completed according to the Party Rules:
a.) Election of delegates and alternates to the National Convention (in presidential election years)
b.) Election of certain Party officials
c.) Adoption of a Texas Republican Platform (busy work for useful idiots, or enforceable?) Continue reading “We CAN Hold Them Accountable”