We see a demand for mental health services throughout our public schools. There is in fact an issue of student underperformance, negative behavior, a lack of discipline, school safety, and liberal indoctrination going on. If the result all boils down to mental health, then exactly what is mental health and who gets to define it?
The American Heritage Dictionary defines Mental Health as:
A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life.
How the public school defines Mental Health in its implementation:
A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to cognitively function and emotionally accept humanism, liberalism, socialism, sexual perversion, perceived identities, lawlessness, laziness, entitlement, victimhood, inequality, tolerance under the guise of intolerance, dependency upon government, disobedience to parents, the denial of God, and view America as a Democracy and not a Constitutional Republic.
To understand mental health, one must understand the school’s agenda under the mask of mental health. No matter the definition of mental health, it comes down to how one conducts themself in society. Society is defined by what’s socially acceptable. Depending on one’s political or religious views, those in power are determined to either preserve tradition or redefine it, and the norm of what’s socially acceptable and what’s not. Absolutes cannot be changed, but some believe in a delusion that we will all someday live in a man-made utopia where everyone can fulfill their lustful desires, all will be provided for, and all will hold hands and sing Kumbaya.
Their definition of “ideal” mental health requires societal reprogramming.
You might think that your child is doing just fine at school, and that mental health services do not apply to them. It most certainly does, and children are being mentally conditioned with or without your knowledge or consent. Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), School Climate & Culture, Community Schools, BLM at Schools, Culturally-Responsive, and Restorative Justice Practices are all woke systems designed to reprogram children through a Socialist-Marxist point of view.
Funding from the Department of Education and Maryland’s Blueprint supports these systems, and available to any school that loves money. Not only is wokeness trendy to liberals, it is a multi-billion dollar industry for psychologists, pharma, grant writers, social workers, social justice activists, politicians, unions, woke authors, consultants, curriculum, and textbook companies like Scholastic and Penguin Random House.
Then, we have organizations like the National Society of School Psychologists (NASP) and the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH). The fundamental principles of these organizations finds its place of infused activism within a mental health institution. In the last ten years, a perspective and movement rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT), Diversity Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and “Social Justice Warrior” ideals have undeniably influenced the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and similar organizations and agencies alike. NASP not only verbally endorses, but has also published multiple Position Papers and other documents on its website (nasponline.org) promoting CRT, DEI, SEL, and expansive definitions of so-called Sex Education, along with ideological teachings starting as early as Kindergarten. None of this is health, but psychobabble.
We live in a time where terms are now deceptively masked, redefining what these terms have meant traditionally or what one would comprehend for face value. This past article explains this very well.
There are so many programs and agendas in the public school system to make what they are doing sound sensible on the surface, but extremely toxic within.
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Within:
My ex teaches in Wicomico. The crap she tells me about at BMS is off the chain. Same place that kid stabbed another with scissors.
Just keep kissing the kid’s asses and see how they turn out !!!!!
You all need to look up James Lindsay on your tube. He talks about “social-emotional learning” and how it is basically Maoist brainwashing.
3:39, God loves you and so does your family. Please get help before things get worse. You don’t need to remain alone. Take off the tinfoil hat and let yourself live again.
Evidently they are aware they are making the kids crazy with their “progressive” sexual and divisive philosophies and have discovered another way to bilk the taxpayers even more!
No, in Wicomico the lack of real parenting is the issue. The kids are totally wacko (because of their family situations) , and that is a direct reflection of poor parenting. I know everyone wants to blame the teachers for this socialist crap. The truth is there are a few of those nuts around (purple hair and all) , but pretty much the majority of the school staff are not. They are trying to contend with the absolute crazy mess that walks in the doors every day. I know this because I retired from the system two years ago and saw this mental health crisis coming for the more than the last decade. No regard for rules or consequences, no administrative support, and no way to get these kids under control so we could teach. It’s a train wreck without a conductor.
Teachers finance the unions who push the socialist crap on the poorly parented kids. Do the unions influence the selections of the upper echelon educrats who continue to cheat and game the system paid for by the taxpayers and when they get caught float away on their golden parachutes?
Gigi – while you are correct that some teachers pay union dues, and those dues finance some really bad candidates, there are a whole bunch of us who are staunchly anti union, do not belong to the WCEA, and are as conservative and as hard working as anyone else. Please don’t lump us all in one category. I agree with 1:15, and that the colored haired goofballs are the rarity and exception, and definitely not the rule.