Parents protesting 'critical race theory' identify a new target: Mental health programs
At a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, a parent named Tara Eddins strode to the lectern during the public comment period and demanded to know why the Carroll Independent School District was paying counselors “at $90K a pop” to give students lessons on suicide prevention.
“At Carroll ISD, you are actually advertising suicide,” Eddins said, arguing that many parents in the affluent suburban school system have hired tutors because the district’s counselors are too focused on mental health instead of helping students prepare for college.
“Some of these kids, they’re just trying to get through the day, get through compacted math, get through algebra, go to cotillion on Sunday,” Eddins said. “They are not thinking about these issues.”
Two days after Eddins made the remarks, Southlake Families PAC — a group that has fought to stop a diversity plan at Carroll — sent an email to supporters calling on the school district to “Leave mental health and parenting to parents.”
Christina Edmiston, a Southlake resident and mother of two, was outraged when she saw the email. Earlier that month, Edmiston had pulled her 12-year-old son out of the Carroll district after he reported thoughts of suicide after having been bullied by classmates for his sexuality.
“You can’t expect just to teach kids arithmetic and reading and look at their test scores and expect them to be decent human beings,” Edmiston said. “I personally cannot understand why a parent would not want their children to have knowledge of what depression looks like, what anxiety looks like.”
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their schools teaching “Replacement Theory”?
Was about to say, if parents were doing all that great of a job the school wouldn't need psych counselors.
But of course that is the point. Like you said, too many families hide in "don't air your dirty laundry in public" mode, and children suffer and grow up to be dysfunctional adults, thus perpetuating the cycle.
I WISH there had been such a thing as a counselor who cared about mental health in the shitty little high school I graduated from! Maybe I would have actually gotten some help with MY mental health problems.
We had ONE so-called "guidance counselor" who was also the Asst. Principal AND a sports coach. I would have died before trying to talk to him about my depression and paralyzing social anxiety (even if I'd had the words to describe them, which I didn't) . Which is just as well, because I know he would have been worse than useless.
These parents are actually trying to TAKE AWAY something I would have given anything to have access to in high school. Damn them ALL to hell!
EDITED TO ADD: Also, wtf is "compacted math"? Is that actually a thing, or did that idiot woman just make that up?
NEVER MIND: It IS a thing: https://www.ncmcs.org/academics/mathematics/middle_school_compacted_math
I knew I should have googled first!
