Illegal Screening Done on Student

The National Parents Association (Quebec) recently reported that a student had been kicked out of school because his mother refused to give him Ritalin. The 12-year-old claimed that he had been given a number of psychological tests, but his mother said she had no knowledge of those tests being done. When the school released the student’s records, it was discovered that, indeed, three tests had been administered—one of them instructing the students to keep the test “confidential.”

In Quebec it is illegal to conduct psychological, psychiatric, or medical tests without obtaining consent.

—Data taken from the Parents Rights Watch email newsletter, April 18, 2006, National Parents Association, info@npaquebec.org., www.npaquebec.org

Parents, Get the data on screening programs in your area. Don’t be left in the dark. Contact the NPA and lend your support. (You don’t have to live in Canada to sign their petition—this is a universal issue.)

Ditto Canadians: Support the U.S. efforts to stop screening. Get the truth about TeenScreen at www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html