Controversy Urges Caution Over TeenScreen
"Months before a depression/suicide screening could begin in Kenosha schools, debate on the efficacy and appropriateness of the program is in full swing."
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"John Nordquist, publisher of the Daily Kenoshan, a community Web site, said TeenScreen reaches too far into students' lives.
"To be saying you need a psychiatrist or you are suicidal, that's not for a school to say," Nordquist said.
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"I'm not sure how much legwork was done in looking into TeenScreen, and where their funding comes from. From what I've seen, I don't like the roots of this," board member Pam Stevens said. "There is no chance I would allow this in this school district."
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"John Nordquist, publisher of the Daily Kenoshan, a community Web site, said TeenScreen reaches too far into students' lives.
"To be saying you need a psychiatrist or you are suicidal, that's not for a school to say," Nordquist said.
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"I'm not sure how much legwork was done in looking into TeenScreen, and where their funding comes from. From what I've seen, I don't like the roots of this," board member Pam Stevens said. "There is no chance I would allow this in this school district."
— Chris Barncard, "TeenScreen under fire in Unified suicide fight," Kenosha News, Nov 15, 2006
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