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Schools Make Kids Crazy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Bovard via The Brownstone Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students<\/strong>. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring \u201cuniversal mental health screening<\/a>\u201d to two million Illinois students as part of his Children\u2019s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean \u201ctens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most will be false positives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If politicians want to help kids, they must recognize how government schools systematically undermine students\u2019 mental health.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Covid school lockdowns nuked the mental health of millions of young Americans. A 2024\u00a0JAMA<\/em>\u00a0Original Investigation<\/a>\u00a0found that between 2018 and 2021, young people saw an almost 300% increase in the number of hospital emergency visits for eating disorders and suicidal ideation. Suicide attempts increased 250% during that time. Depression and anxiety skyrocketed among youth from the start of the pandemic, but politicians and policymakers ignored the mental carnage that Covid policies inflicted.<\/p>\n

A 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey found that 44% of high school students said they \u201cpersistently felt sad or hopeless in the past year.\u201d Females were almost twice as likely to be depressed, with 57% \u201cpersistently felt sad and hopeless\u201d versus 31% of male students. School shutdowns dismally failed to thwart the spread of Covid. After schools reopened, students were hassled to comply with idiotic mask mandates that did nothing except multiply anxiety.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Schools are subverting students\u2019 mental health by endlessly hectoring them to doubt or despise their own bodies.<\/strong> These school antics reached epidemic level even before the start of the Covid pandemic. In 2019, the state of Maryland issued regulations to promote \u201cviewing each student\u2019s\u201d \u201cgender identity and expression\u201d as \u201cvaluable.\u201d Government officials and political appointees arrogated to themselves the prerogative to redefine gender in the state of Maryland. Montgomery County, the largest school system in the state, announced that it would choose books for the curriculum \u201cthrough an \u2018LGBTQ+ Lens\u2019 and ask whether books \u2018reinforced or disrupted\u2019 \u2018stereotypes,\u2019 \u2018cisnormativity,\u2019 and \u2018power hierarchies,\u2019\u201d according to a brief filed at the Supreme Court by parents who successfully challenged the school system. That brief also noted that \u201cteachers are told to frame disagreement with [pro-LGBTQ] ideas as \u2018hurtful,\u2019 and to counter with examples of \u2018men who paint their nails\u2019 or \u2018wear dresses.\u2019\u201d The goal is to instill in children \u201ca new perspective not easily contravened by their parents,\u201d as the county school board admitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The indoctrination produced a\u00a0582% increase<\/a>\u00a0in the number of kids self-identifying as \u201cnon-binary\u201d in Montgomery County schools.<\/strong> \u201cDisrupting children\u2019s thinking\u201d has been so successful that almost half of the students identified themselves as non-binary. But non-binary kids are far more likely to suffer mental illness. One survey found that more than half of transgender and non-binary youth\u00a0considered committing<\/a>\u00a0suicide in 2022. That has not stopped other school systems from openly or covertly campaigning to sway children to repent or revolt from how they were born.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schools have bludgeoned kids with \u201cChicken Little \u2013 The Sky is Falling!\u201d environmental propaganda for decades.<\/strong> The result, according to the American Psychological Association, is that 58% of American youth are \u201cvery or extremely worried about climate change\u201d and 43% said \u201cclimate change impacted their mental health.\u201d\u00a0Harvard Medical Magazine<\/em>\u00a0reports that for many young people, \u201cworry over threats of future climate change results in\u00a0panic attacks, insomnia,<\/a>\u00a0obsessive thinking, and other symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schools hold up as a role model Greta Thunberg, the deranged Swedish teenager whose incoherent ravings against the modern world turned her into a saint. It is irrelevant to school masterminds that many of the environmental alarms have proven to be bogus or wildly exaggerated. Children have been taught to dread, and they have been taught to implore politicians to rescue them \u2013 two very bad outcomes for mental health. Surveys by Eco-America indicate that between 57% and 70% of teens aged 13 to 17 \u201creport anxiety symptoms linked to climate.\u201d Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of former Vice President Kamala Harris, recently lamented on TikTok: \u201cI think everything with the environment is really f\u2014ing getting to me, and it is \u2014 I experience\u00a0a lot of climate anxiety<\/a>, like all of us do.\u201d Turning climate anxiety into virtue signaling guarantees there will be no shortage of angst.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schools are also subverting mental health by vastly exaggerating other perils that students face via bizarre school shooting drills.<\/strong> In Indiana, elementary school teachers were shot as part of a \u201csafe schools\u201d training program. According to the Indiana State Teachers Association, sheriffs\u2019 deputies ordered teachers \u201cinto a room four at a time, told them to crouch down and then shot them execution-style with pellets in rapid succession,\u201d leaving several of them bloodied and many of them screaming. The union complained, \u201cThe teachers were terrified, but were told not to tell anyone what happened. Teachers waiting outside that heard the screaming were brought into the room four at a time and the shooting process was repeated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schools are \u201cincreasingly turning their hallways into an imitation of a real mass shooting, complete with police officers firing BB guns and drama students enlisted to play victims, made up with fake blood and bullet holes. Occasionally, the drills are sprung on teachers and students without warning,\u201d as a student newspaper in Great Neck, New York, observed. A Pennsylvania teacher commented that she was \u201cmore traumatized than trained\u201d after teachers were shot with airsoft guns by a fake active shooter. \u201cWe had colleagues shooting colleagues, we had people getting hit with [plastic] pellets.\u2026People were screaming, trying to run. People were tripping over each other. It was just horrendous,\u201d Elizabeth Yanelli recalled.<\/p>\n

One of the primary beneficiaries of such antics is pharmaceutical companies that hustle anti-anxiety drugs to children.<\/strong> Former policeman Raeford Davis commented on lockdown\/active shooter drills, \u201cThese simulated execution rituals are conducted for fear-based mass social control purposes to traumatize, instill fear, hopelessness, personal dis-empowerment, reliance on authority figures to save and protect you.\u201d A 2021\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers \u201cfound that anxiety, depression and stress increase by around 40% after [school shooting] lockdown drills.\u201d Such collateral psychic damage is especially unfortunate since the drills that schools compel students to perform are\u00a0mostly useless<\/a>\u00a0in a real crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plenty of students are bummed because they recognize they have practically no escape from surveillance. Schools boast of giving kids free laptops, but that becomes the equivalent of wearing an electronic ankle monitor to track everything a person writes or every step they take online. A recent study found that the vast majority of companies that schools hire to surveil students online actually track kids 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, using school-issued devices. The study found that 29% of the companies \u201cgenerate student \u2018risk scores\u2019 based on online behavior.\u201d (It is not known if such scores are skewed by visiting the Libertarian Institute website.) The Center for Democracy and Technology reported in 2023: \u201cStudent activity monitoring continues to harm many of the students it claims to help: Disciplinary actions, outing of students, and initiation of\u00a0law enforcement contact are<\/a>\u00a0still regular outcomes\u201d of surveillance of students\u2019 computer use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A recent sea change in federal grant policy hints at how much damage Washington\u2019s mental health interventions have already inflicted on students. In July, the US Department of Education proposed revising guidelines to prohibit federal mental health grants from \u201cpromoting or\u00a0endorsing gender<\/a>\u00a0ideology, political activism, racial stereotyping, or hostile environments for students of particular races.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that a new guideline would be needed for such things is indicative of the follies previously propagated by federal bureaucrats. Will another regulatory change be necessary to stop using federal grants to make kids afraid of the dark?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Politicians, psychiatrists, and public schools are the last places to trust to safeguard mental health.<\/strong> Young Americans are already suffering from a downward politico-psychological spiral thanks to decades of abusive, repressive policies.\u00a0<\/strong>Curtailing political and bureaucratic power is a vital first step to make America sane again.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

An earlier version of this piece was published by\u00a0the Libertarian Institute<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 09\/02\/2025 – 19:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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