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Handcuffed and sent to the ER – for misbehavior: Schools are sending more kids to the hospital (apnews.com)

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Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old.

The state law that allows for these removals, known as petitions for emergency evaluation, is meant to be limited to people with severe mental illness, who are endangering their own lives or safety or someone else’s. It’s the first step toward getting someone involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

But advocates say schools across the country are sending children to the emergency room for psychiatric evaluations in response to behaviors prompted by bullying or frustration over assignments. The ER trips, they say, often follow months, and sometimes years, of their needs not being met.

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[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 38 points 10 months ago

I know you’re being sarcastic but it really does look like this.

Teaching kids to accept getting bullied and beaten, without retaliation or justice.

Teaching kids to mindlessly accept all authority.

This is 100% a slave generating structure.

And if you’re upset about it, or don’t behave 100% correctly, you will be arrested and imprisoned.

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

This is 100% a slave generating structure.

And if you’re upset about it, or don’t behave 100% correctly, you will be arrested and imprisoned.

100% exactly that, and I'm sorry do this, but not only one but two of your points are explicitly in the same song that's been at the top of my "most played" list lately. Snippets:

Nothing can save ya, you question the reign
You get rushed in and chained up
Fist raised but I must be insane
cos I can't figure a single goddamn way to change it

...

Only two generations away
from the world's most despicable slavery trade

Pioneered so many ways to degrade a human being
that it can't be changed to this day
Legacy so ingrained in the way that we think we no longer need chains
to be slaves

Uncle Sam Goddamn

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is fucking sickening.

I'm upset about it, come arrest me.

I have a cool surprise.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That was a little ominous and disturbing. Do you need to talk?

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

So long as you're not helping keep this horrible slave-making process alive, then nope.

Otherwise, c'mon by.

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