Reply #7: Can someone verify that there really is such a policy or [View All]

[DebJ]

recommendation for one? This thread keeps showing up in here, and I thought it was discredited as garbage. Even the freepers freaked out over it, with numerous quotes from them posted here.

If this is valid, I will sign and get others to sign. I have an adult child with serious bipolar disorder, and I think this policy is VERY dangerous. The head psychiatrist for our county school system in Maryland (Howard County) kept trying to force me to give my son Ritalin. I refused. Good thing, it turns out, because Ritalin has good potential to be disastrous for many with BP. We did get him on a very helpful drug regimen within a year or two, and he has been on one every since, and literally would die without it, but NOT RITALIN. Parents and private psychiatrists need to be making these decisions, not the schools.
Wouldn't an alternative be for local school boards to be able to expel students who a)are constantly seriously disruptive and b)refuse to seek professional health? (Does anyone ever get expelled anymore short of actually shooting someone???) My husband is a special education teacher; I see both sides of the issues.