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After reading about this, I have another reason to move out of Illinois, except that the screening will probably be in every state before too long. This is a seriously bad idea. Public schools have a bad enough track record measuring academic achievment with standardized testing. The theme here is laziness. Schools will take the easy way out and just drug any kids they deem fit to instead of trying to understand the differences and variations in student behavior. I believe psychotropic drugs should be used as a weapon of last resort against mental illness. Most of them are not even proven to be effective against the disorders they are prescribed to treat. I predict the mental health questions will be peppered with items relating to students behaving the way the system wants them to behave and having nothing at all to do with the mental well being of the students. No good is going to come of this at all.
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