Words fail to describe how terrible these people are:
For students in Illinois, mental health screenings will soon be required alongside annual vision and hearing exams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Thursday that will require public school students in grades 3 through 12 in the state to undergo a mental health screening each year.
This alone is reason enough for people who can’t afford private schools or homeschooling to move out of Illinois.
Even the USSR with its famous punitive psychiatry didn’t go this far.
Clarissa's Blog 
Luckily I’ve read enough psychology textbooks that if I were a student in Illinois, I’d just tell the shrinks what they want to hear so they leave me alone. Alcohol is cheaper and more effective for me than head shrinking, I don’t trust psychiatry since they can manipulate people into thinking dubious stuff
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Imagine how easy it is to confuse an 8-year-old, proclaim that she’s trans, and force the parents to put her on hormones.
This is an absolute nightmare. Anybody’s children can be diagnosed with “gender disphoria” and castrated.
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Absolutely, I have young little cousins who are at that age where they think the opposite gender is gross and the girls like to roughhouse. It’ll be too easy to convince girls with a tomboy streak or boys who are slightly effeminate that are really trans when they might be going through a phase or actually gay or lesbian. Kids are too easily influenced by adults and such screenings will only mess them up
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It looks like they are not mandatory, is that right?
How does he plan to pay for it? AI thought they were in a budget crisis.
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Pay for what? Parents will pay. We pay to get a general physical and a dental screening that are required to go to school.
Many children have already been placed on ADHD meds to be allowed to continue in school. Now anti-anxiety meds and anti-depressants will be required.
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The linked article uses the word “required” multiple times. Digger deeper, it looks like the requirement is on the school districts to “offer” it to all students. Whether accepting that offer is mandatory for the students isn’t clear from the press release. It probably comes with strings attached though, because it always does. Get a certain percentage of your students enrolled or we’ll pull your district funding. Get a physical, a psych screen, and all your shots or no class for you.
The press release doesn’t say so we’d have to read the bill in order to find out the intended funding source. If there isn’t one mentioned, I have a hunch that it is designed to make the current administration look bad for trying to reduce reliance on federal vs. state level funding. At one point anyway, Governor Gotta-trans-em-all was a key member of The ResistanceTM and being positioned as a potential federal leader. When it comes to state resources, blue states always boast about how much more they contribute to the GDP than red states and wail about how they can’t possibly provide basic services without money from the feds.
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“can’t afford…”
What you’re not seeing here, is that every time they push one of these things through the regulatory apparatus, they try to include homeschoolers and private school students in it, and then our legal defense funds have to go to war over it.
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Absolutely, this is a bloodsucking ploy.
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Here was this year’s iteration in IL:
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/house-passes-potentially-unconstitutional-homeschool-regulations-out-of-committee/
https://hslda.org/post/illinois-house-bill-2827#summary
Despite the name, I believe it would have affected private schools as well. On the surface, didn’t seem like anything particularly onerous (if you’re not a homeschooler) but a couple of alarming provisions in there: if parents don’t comply, they can be jailed, they wanted to document the *religion* of every homeschooling family (like seriously WTF– they don’t do that to public school students), and they wanted to hold homeschooled kids to the same vaccine requirements as schooled children (this is big, as it’s a primary reason for many parents to opt their kids out).
We turned out in force and defeated it for now, but there’s always another one next year.
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So is school driving the kids crazy?
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