How Public Schools Coerce Parents Into Giving Mind-Altering Drugs To Their Children

Despite the potentially dangerous side-effects ofthat are on Ritalin and other medication. They line up
Ritalin, some public school authorities now pressureevery day to get their medication in order for them
parents to give Ritalin to their children so these kidsto stay in school, and attempt to do their work in a
won't "act up" in school.drug-induced state."
Naturally, most parents don't want to drug their"About 12 months ago we were told to put
children just because they are unruly, bored in class,Christopher on Adderall and that this medication
or high-spirited. However, compulsory attendancewould work better and would last longer. The side
laws force parents to send their children to publiceffects were the same, dehydration, loss of
schools. Just as school authorities resort toappetite, growth limitations and violent mood swings,
compulsion to get their students by force, so theyand the fact is that no one knows what the long
apply the same compulsion against children and theirterm effects on your children's health will be. We did
parents to pressure parents into giving Ritalin to theiras the Doctor advised and he has been on Adderall
kids.since."
How do schools pressure parents? They threaten to"Any time Christopher has a bad day in school, the
expel the child, hold the child back a grade, put theteachers want to know if he took his medication for
child into a special-education class, or threaten thethe day. You see, once a child is labeled ADD or
parents with prosecution for child abuse.hyperactive, it stays with them, and it's locked in the
Here's one parent's story:teachers' minds. Thus if the child has a problem, it
"Hello, my name is Bobby B. [last name withheld formust be that he/she did not take their medication. I
privacy], and that little boy you see above [in aam sure this goes on in public schools all over this
picture in the article] . . . is my pride and joy. Thecountry and parents like us have no choice or our
picture was taken on Halloween when he was 5choices are very limited. If you want your child to
years old and he was already on Ritalin. He was putstay in school, Ritalin or Adderall is their solution to
on Ritalin because the local school district informed usany and all behavioral problems."
that if we did not put him on medication he would beHere we have an example of school authorities not
removed from school. In fact his first year was atolerating normal children who might be having a "bad
nightmare from the start."day" or want to express their anger about
"Kindergarten is supposed to be fun and enjoyablesomething. As adults, we all have such bad days and
for the child. However, Christopher had the teacherwe all get angry occasionally. But because public
from hell and she made his life miserable. He could doschools are like mini-prisons that require "order" and
nothing right and at the end of the school year she"discipline" to function, children are expected to
was going to flunk him out of her class. . . .conform to the rules. They are not allowed to have
Christopher's teacher thought he was nothing but"bad days" or express anger. Hence school authorities
trouble, too hyperactive, too hard to manage andmust pressure parents to drug these children to
she wanted nothing to do with him. This was themake them passive.
start of our own nightmare and our introduction toChristopher's horror story is repeated again and again
Ritalin and ADD. For the next 8 years our little boyin public schools across the country. Parents, if public
was on this medication because without it he wouldschool authorities are pressuring you to give your
not be allowed to continue in our public schoolchildren mind-altering drugs, alarm bells should be going
system. . . ."off in your head. You should immediately consider
"My wife volunteers at the school in the office areataking your child out of public school and
weekly, and she has told me of the hundreds of kidshomeschooling him, for your child's sake.