School And Health
The school does not become a center for psychiatric control of behavior. Yet it is a real risk. Indeed, recent reports of INSERM on children’s mental health advocate routine screening for mental disorders in schools. It also remembers the bill on the prevention of delinquency (advocating a conduct disorder screening for children 3 years). A group was then created “the Collective No Zero for Conduct.” More than 200,000 people, health workers, parents and citizens have signed a petition against the screening. That did not stop until sometime in 2007, questionnaires to investigate the mental health of children 5 years have been distributed in several schools in Paris, an initiative of the Fondation MGEN (Mutuelle Generale Education National) in agreement with the city of Paris. Parent groups of students are so rebellious and questionnaires were removed from intrusive to privacy. Members of the Consultative Council are concerned about the many attempts to stigmatize our children.
Today, there is a law (the law of child protection) and a circular allowing screening for psychological problems in schools. The CCHD requires that testing be banned in schools must remain places of knowledge transfer and non-psychiatric clinics or centers of social control. A petition for child protection and against screening for mental disorders may be signed at the information booth. It is regrettable that France resembles more the model of the United States. There, the mental health screening in schools is applied, which resulted in the development of chemical straightjacket over 8 million children.
Should we remind the French psychiatrists side effects and disastrous consequences that these drugs can have on children? The largest school shootings in the United States were perpetrated by children and adolescents on psychotropic drugs. Side effects of such drugs is suicide, violence, sudden death … In France, more than 1 million children take a psychotropic drug during one year. This destroys the next generation but pays huge financial benefits to the pharmaceutical industry. The French government and health professionals had better deal with real health problems such as hearing screening, nutritional deficiencies are common in children. It must be remembered that the diagnostic criteria used to label a child as mentally ill have no science. As the biopsychologist Elliot S. Valenstein “There is no test to measure the chemical state of the brain of a living person. Similarly, we found no sign biochemical, anatomical or functional reliably distinguish the brains of patients with mental disorders. The CCHR, the field for over 30 years in France, continues its information campaign and asked the government to ban the screening of mental disorders of children in schools.