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Ken Kramer, an outspoken member of (and rabid advocate for) Co$/scientology demands that the Oshkosh, Wisconsin school board listen to him and abandon their plans to provide mental health screening questionnaires to identify at-risk and troubled teens. The school board is scheduled to vote tonight.
Mr. Kramer doesn't live in Wisconsin. Despite this, he's decided to tell the people who do live in Wisconsin what to do -- and, since giving a questionnaire to a 9th grader isn't on his 'hubbard-approved' list -- the good people of Wisconsin, per Ken Kramer, should abandon the questionnaires altogether.
Because Ken Kramer knows.
"Scientologist Urging School Board To Abandon Mental Health Screenings" - link to article: http://oshkoshhub.thenorthwestern.com/article/20130924/OSH0101/309240332/
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Four other school districts near Oshkosh provide mental health screenings already - I hope the Oshkosh school board votes and brings the total to five.
JB
Mr. Kramer doesn't live in Wisconsin. Despite this, he's decided to tell the people who do live in Wisconsin what to do -- and, since giving a questionnaire to a 9th grader isn't on his 'hubbard-approved' list -- the good people of Wisconsin, per Ken Kramer, should abandon the questionnaires altogether.
Because Ken Kramer knows.
"Scientologist Urging School Board To Abandon Mental Health Screenings" - link to article: http://oshkoshhub.thenorthwestern.com/article/20130924/OSH0101/309240332/
Excerpts:
A Florida man on a personal mission to expose psychiatric fraud is urging the Oshkosh school board not to screen local teens for thoughts of suicide.
The school board will vote tonight to offer free mental health screenings to high school freshman in effort to identify and help those at risk of committing suicide.
Ken Kramer, of Clearwater, Fla., says the screenings being considered by the board use an abandoned and unproven questionnaire. He said he believes the tool is an attempt by social workers and psychiatrists to get more clients — and money — while risking introducing thoughts of suicide to otherwise healthy youths.
Kramer is a Scientologist who share’s the church’s opposition to psychiatry. He runs a public records research Web site called [psychsearch DOT net - link disabled by JB] and is involved with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an organization founded by the Church of Scientology in 1969 to expose abuses in psychiatry.
The program will cost the Oshkosh school district an estimated $35,000 this year to provide the screenings to all ninth graders. The actual cost could vary depending on how many students participate.
Oshkosh school district Superintendent Stan Mack said he was surprised by the opposition to the screenings because it’s not new to the area. Several other districts use it, including Fond du Lac, Kaukauna, Kimberly and Appleton.
Mack said he still recommends the school board fund the program.
“If we save one life it’s worth the investment because we would have prevented a terrible loss. Anything we can do to protect the lives of children is worth while,” Mack said.
Four other school districts near Oshkosh provide mental health screenings already - I hope the Oshkosh school board votes and brings the total to five.
JB