Dumbest School-Demanded Psych Evaluation Ever
I’ve long complained about how our nation’s schools are handling behavioral issues with kids and out of Tauton, Mass. comes one of the weirdest examples I’ve encountered. An 8-year-old boy was asked to draw a Christmas image and instead drew a person attached to a crucifix. The person was either himself or Jesus (the kid had apparently been taken by his folks to a shrine that had lots of crucifixes the week before and the images may have been stuck in his head and Christ is kind of connected with Christmas) and so the kid got sent home from school and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation by the school. Seriously.
You can read the rest of this odd episode here (scroll down a bit for the actual news account).
I’ve worked with kids this same age in schools and I cannot think of why a teacher would be alarmed by the image, why a teacher would connect it with possible violence, and why the school would insist on a psych eval. It seems like epic overkill on the teacher and school’s parts. I think it is they who need to be evaluated.
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