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The Saga of TeenScreen "RAT TRAPS" Continue -
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ANTI - TeenScreen Letters Below - CHECK IT OUT!
Annie Armen's TeenScreen WhoopAss Letters for
Florida and Indiana:
Letter Addressed to
Penn-Harris Madison School Corp.
in Indiana
dated 02/22/05.
Letter Addressed to
Pinellas
County School Board, Florida 01/25/05.
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Friday, February 25, 2005 3:50
PM
From:
Dr. Karen Effrem
To:
superintendent@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear Superintendent Howard and Members of
the Penn-Harris-Madison School Board,
I am
writing as a mother of three and a board certified
pediatrician
who grew
up in South Bend, Indiana and attended Jackson and Riley
high schools,
Purdue
University
and Johns Hopkins medical school to respectfully request
that you
to
withdraw the TeenScreen depression screening instrument
from the
Penn-Harris-Madison school district.
There are
many problems with screening and TeenScreen in
particular that include:
as the
person tested rarely understands the implications of all
the questions…
or the
significance of the responses. The tests may not only
reveal the thoughts
and
feelings which the student desires to withhold from others
but those he is trying
to
keep from his own consciousness.” - (Scherrer and Roston,
Federal Bar Journal,
Spring, 1971, as quoted in Eakman, Cloning of the American
Mind: Eradicating
Morality Through Education, Lafayette, LA, Huntington
House, 1998, p. 80)
rate
went up, as described by Michael Brose, head of the mental
health partnership
organization there, who said, ''To the best of my
knowledge, this is the highest
number
of youth suicides we've ever had during the school year --
a number we find
very
frightening.''
Best,
Karen R. Effrem, MD
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:51
PM
From:
Sylvia DeWall
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear Principal/Parent/Student
Mentor/Religious Leader/Coach/Teen Guardian, etc.,
A couple of months ago I
came across an article on the Bay News 9 website that
raised an eyebrow. It was regarding the proposed "Teen
Screen" program that our Pinellas County School Board is
actually considering implementing. They will be voting on
this issue January 11th.
As a concerned parent of
three teenagers residing in Pinellas County, I beg of you
to review the data I’ve attached to this email and weigh
the consequences of such an absurd program, created by
individuals who intend only to profit from the inevitable
"drug pushing".
These self-proclaimed
"authorities" have no business telling parents and leaders
in our community how to raise our children. This is a
bogus program meant only to profit psychotropic drug
manufactures and on down their food chain.
Please show your support by
emailing the Pinellas County School Board AND being
present during this crossroads meeting January 11th.
I welcome your questions
via email and promise a quick and apt response.
Thank you for reading this.
Sincerely, Sylvia DeWall |
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Monday, February 28, 2005 1:49
PM
From:
Ellie Bolger
To:
superintendent@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear
Superintendent of Schools,
TEEN SCREEN is a fraud. Its purpose is to
get more kids on psychotropic drugs---and if
you have researched the subject, which Im
sure you have, you are aware that a majority
of school shootings were committed by
persons on psychiatric or psychotropic
drugs!!
Also you probably are familiar with
instances of teenagers committing suicide
BECAUSE OF THE DRUGS they were on! This is
the reason the FDA had to put black box
warnings on certain drugs, because they
cause suicidal thoughts and suicide in kids.
Also TEEN SCREEN is based on totally
completely subjective conclusions, there is
not a whit of science within miles of
anything TEEN SCREEN does. If you were
having a bad day and looked a bit upset or
something, these people might say you needed
drugs. Well, I ask, you is this scientific?
So I would say, if you want more violence or
more suicides in your area, endorse TEEN
SCREEN.
On the other hand, if you want the children
in your area to grow up and become
reasonable and contributing adults in your
community, disallow TEEN SCREEN from your
schools!!!
Sincerely,
Ellie Bolger
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Monday, February 28, 2005 1:00
PM
From:
Judy
Adams
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
To: School Board
On this issue I wish to offer my opinion
- I am totally against anyone considering
implementing this type of program into any
school and am totally supporting all efforts
to stop this and any other similar
psychiatric program being inflicted upon our
students in any state in this country.
I have raised 4 healthy children to
adulthood and actively worked with youth in
our schools for over 30 years. I have
family and friends in Indiana. I have also
dealt many times with psychiatrists and
their ilk. In my view, no psychiatrist or
psychiatric program should be allowed near
our schools or our children for any reason
whatsoever. They are dangerous to
society. These people have an agenda and it
is NOT help the way most of us know true
help is.
Thank you for your consideration and your
absolute "no" on this issue.
Sincerely,
Judy Adams
www.tasteofeuro.com
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Monday, February 28, 2005 12:19 PM
From:
Judah Doreson
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear
Superintendent and School Board Members,
The citizens of the United States are a pretty bright
group of individuals, with a long tradition of personal
freedom and self-reliance.
They can't be fooled very often. 'TeenScreen' is being
passed off as method of detecting and preventing suicide
among teens. To the 'professionals' implementing this
'system', every child taking the screening is a potential
suicide. Any kid that ever was 'too' concerned about
their test scores, or whose mood varied with the vagaries
of life, would be a candidate for drugging or 'treatment'.
Suicide is a problem amongst teens. Unfortunately, it has
only become a problem, since our school systems have
become infested with the same incompetent, destructive
'professionals' who will be implementing and administering
this system. Of course, once the system is implemented,
these 'professionals' will find ever increasing numbers
of 'sick' children, who will need ever increasing numbers
of 'therapists', who will create ever increasing numbers
of new 'sick' children, etc.
We do need to spend more on helping our children. Why not
use the money to instruct parents on how to better
communicate with their children and form trusting
relationships. Parents who can actually communicate to
their kids don't need to pay someone else to find out if
their children
are suicidal. And kids that can speak truthfully to their
parents aren't suicidal to begin with.
Yours Truly,
Judah and Laura Doreson
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Monday, February 28, 2005 11:44 AM
From:
Julie
Wynne McClintock
To:
superintendent@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear Superintendent,
I just couldn't sit back and let one more
teenager be drugged. You
see, my nephew was in
Columbine
High School when the shooting broke out
several
years ago. I don't want any other teenager
to go through the same thing!
Being a teenager is rough enough in these
times - we need to put an end
to this. Drugs are not the solution,
communication is!
Thanks for listening!
Julie Wynne McClintock
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Friday, February 25, 2005 3:13 PM
From:
Bettie
Ross Blumer
To:
superintendent@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear Superintendent and
Mishawaka, Indiana
School Board,
Please do not implement TeenScreen in your
area.
Why? Please go to
www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html
to
fully inform yourselves.
What happens in your city and school
district affects ALL of us here in the
United States.
Be responsible. Get ALL the facts.
A very concerned parent and U.S. Citizen,
Bettie Ross Blumer
Winnetka,
California
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
2/25/2005 2:54:39 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:
John F. Prior
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
info@anniearmenlive.org
Dear School Board,
I'm sure by now you have heard that the
Pinellas School Board in Florida evaluated
Teen Screen in their school system and
decided against it by a 6 to 1 vote.
I think you should do the same.
Like you I am concerned about teens
committing suicide, but Teen Screen is not
the answer.
It is just an effort pushed by the drug
industry to get more teens on medicine.
John F. Prior
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
2/24/2005 9:58:35 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:
Marilyn
Gill
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
info@anniearmenlive.org
To All Concerned:
As I write this letter I am brought back
sixteen years to our son's first encounter
with the mental health industry. He was
twelve and a half. He had over a 130 IQ on
a bad day. He was a loving son. We had
incredible insurance.
What I didn't know was that psychiatry had a
plan. I didn't know that they were working
hand-in-hand with Big Pharma. I brought our
only son to the professionals and because
we had million-dollar insurance we were
accepted with open arms. Then came our
son's 18th birthday and the public mental
health sector.
We had already spent thousands of dollars as
part of our co-pay on a policy which was
hundreds
of thousands and our son WAS WORSE. I never
agreed to drugging only counseling and group
and family therapy as well as
hospitalizations. They did little for our
son's teenage angst. Then
at 18 I gave in and supported our son being
drugged with a psychotropic that now has a
Black
Box Warning and is a drug that should only
be used after all other treatments fail. We
had the
'best' adolescent psychiatrist/psychologist
team in our city. ( That same psychiatrist
now works
for the State in forensics. He and our son
got to come full circle).
We were now in bed with psychiatry and not
one professional mentioned the effects of
street drugs, allergies and just plain
stress from all sides including school - a
lot of which had been missed since I brought
our son for "help." No tests were given for
the bipolar diagnosis. What doctor makes
diagnoses without tests? A psychiatrist!!
Also,
no
medication side
effects were
ever mentioned, either.
Alas, the story only gets worse and suffice
it to say that I have been told at school
board meetings by psychologists what I
already know - that these mh agencies are
very
poor at
tracking
students whom they have
labeled and provided 'treatment' for. I
know that many just like our son are now
wards of the state in state hospitals to the
tune of millions and millions of dollars
paid by state and taxpayer funds. I know
that they have been brain/body/mind damaged
by these drugs. I know this because I am
part of a worldwide movement that supports
people getting well and away from any form
of psychiatry. Some have had success.
Great! Compared to the deaths and
institutionalizations they are few. One
need only look at the statistics of
"mentally ill" in the prison system.
As a parent, it is my job to tell you that
Screening for "mental illness" is only
playing into the
hands of the Pharmaceutical Industry. My
brother was a drug rep for Ciba Geigy (now
Novartis)
for thirty years and he said," I was the one
who taught the doctors about medications."
My Mother called him the "legal" drug pusher
in our family. Little did I know then how
very 'right on' she was. He was a good man
and he 'saw the light' when he retired.
Please
allow
parents to get help
for their
children. At least the
young and confused should have some family
support on such an important issue as their
life and its continuation. Schools ought to
teach not preach the virtues of psychiatry
and antidepressants.
Our son's story can be viewed on
www.StephensStory.org It is not
something that I ever thought could happen
to a child. But it did. Now I get to tell
others so they don't make the mistakes that
I made.
Thank you, in advance, for being courageous
enough to stand up for what is right and to
really
help
youth reach
their full
potential not that of the pharmaceuticals.
Respectfully,
Marilyn Gill
(founder MAMMA - Mothers Against
Manufactured Madness Association)
(member MindFreedom and RAPS - Relatives and
Allies of Psychiatric Survivors)
Our son had allergies. This has been
pooh-poohed by many!
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
2/24/2005 8:54:07 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:
Glenna Todovich
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
cc:
info@anniearmenlive.org
PLEASE,
PLEASE vote against TEEN SCREEN.
My son was under the "care" of a psychiatrist and being
treated for
depression from age 15. WHAT A MISTAKE, because of the
SSRI's (Effexor
the last one he was on) not only devastated him mentally
(a chemical
lobotomy) but put him in the hospital for two weeks with
liver failure,
aplastic anemia and an enlarged heart. My son committed
suicide on
November 14, 2003 trying to get "peace" from the effects of these
HORRIBLE drugs. My son was a talented musician, a college
graduate and
my best friend. He was 25 years old. PLEASE VOTE NO.
Concerned,
Glenna Todovich
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Subj:
TeenScreen Indiana
Date:
Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:07 AM
From:
David Agami
To:
dkhumes@phm.k12.in.us
Dear Sir,
I believe Teen Screen is a big mistake.
I don't want my children to be interfered
with, suggested mental impairment or drugged
in the name of "suicide prevention". We take
great pains to give them a healthy life,
mentally and physically, and I believe that
anyone taking as "passive consent" the fact
that I didn't send a "NO" is the most
sneaky, surreptitious trick that could be
pulled on our community, children and
parents.
I absolutely disagree with this disguised
new business of the big drug companies.
Please, protect our families.
Best regards,
David Agami
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