Thursday, February 24, 2005
Who's the Psycho in this Case?
Very nice question asked by Commotion re the following:
Granted that news is not information, it's a bait for you to think that you have information, we know just as much about this case before reading the news as we did afterwards. However, if this case is what it sounds like it is, where are the children's rights organizations to defend a child being subjected to forced drugging in our Brave New World elementary schools?
We live in a society that does not care how much children suffer. This society does not care to ask what causes a child to behave in a disruptive way, neither to fix that, as long as they can mask the disruption that materializes in the external behavior of the child. The inside of a child can go to pieces, but as long as it doesn't show on the outside, mission accomplished.
If this child was with a psycho educator for three years and he is only 7, it means that he started having major behavioral problems when he was 4. And they continued for all the remaining 3 years! That's how wonderful the work of the psycho educator was (the hyphen in "psycho-educator" in the original article seems to be an incorrect addition). And that's half of the little boy's life! Where is all this disruptive behavior coming from? Who is doing what to this child for this to happen? Is this learned behavior from a major adult in his life or is it a reaction to how one or more adults are treating him?
No child has major disruptive behavior without cause. And usually where there are major behavioral outbursts that would require medication, there is a majorly dysfunctional environment or dysfunctional adult in that child's life.
"The school did everything it could to help this child."
And if it were an isolated case... It's a disgrace.
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Child suspended after not taking Ritalin
Fournelle was sent home because of "inacceptable behaviour". The school did everything it could to help this child. But we have to think about other students,” Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin spokesperson Jocelyne Alarie, said.
He was under the care of a school psycho-educator for three years, she said: "When he takes his medication he functions normally."
Granted that news is not information, it's a bait for you to think that you have information, we know just as much about this case before reading the news as we did afterwards. However, if this case is what it sounds like it is, where are the children's rights organizations to defend a child being subjected to forced drugging in our Brave New World elementary schools?
We live in a society that does not care how much children suffer. This society does not care to ask what causes a child to behave in a disruptive way, neither to fix that, as long as they can mask the disruption that materializes in the external behavior of the child. The inside of a child can go to pieces, but as long as it doesn't show on the outside, mission accomplished.
If this child was with a psycho educator for three years and he is only 7, it means that he started having major behavioral problems when he was 4. And they continued for all the remaining 3 years! That's how wonderful the work of the psycho educator was (the hyphen in "psycho-educator" in the original article seems to be an incorrect addition). And that's half of the little boy's life! Where is all this disruptive behavior coming from? Who is doing what to this child for this to happen? Is this learned behavior from a major adult in his life or is it a reaction to how one or more adults are treating him?
No child has major disruptive behavior without cause. And usually where there are major behavioral outbursts that would require medication, there is a majorly dysfunctional environment or dysfunctional adult in that child's life.
"The school did everything it could to help this child."
And if it were an isolated case... It's a disgrace.
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