The Classroom Is Not a Therapist’s Office
In a recent piece for the City Journal, Carolyn Gorman made a strong case against a bill adding $243.6 million to the Department of Education’s Safe Schools and Citizenship Education coffers when “safety” has been redefined to mean using K-12 schools as mental-health clinics. Calling the track record of similar measures poor would be a compliment: universal mental-health screening driving overdiagnosis by producing up to 90 percent false positives. In one case she cites, a California math teacher turned a number-line lesson into a unit on food deserts, complete with video of a single mother struggling to feed her children.
- ▪In a recent piece for the City Journal, Carolyn Gorman made a strong case against a bill adding $243.6 million to the Department of Education’s Safe Schools and Citizenship Education coffers when “safety” has been redefined to mean using K-
- ▪Calling the track record of similar measures poor would be a compliment: universal mental-health screening driving overdiagnosis by producing up to 90 percent false positives.
- ▪In one case she cites, a California math teacher turned a number-line lesson into a unit on food deserts, complete with video of a single mother struggling to feed her children.
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In a recent piece for the City Journal, Carolyn Gorman made a strong case against a bill adding $243.6 million to the Department of Education’s Safe Schools and Citizenship Education coffers when “safety” has been redefined to mean using K-12 schools as mental-health clinics. Calling the track record of similar measures poor would be a compliment: universal mental-health screening driving overdiagnosis by producing up to 90 percent false positives. In one case she cites, a California math teacher turned a number-line lesson into a unit on food deserts, complete with video of a single mother struggling to feed her children.
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