Excerpt from: Marcie Lipsitt's Blog (click for full article)
As a mother and educational advocate I watch children and adults as they suffer and struggle with undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, improperly treated psychiatric illnesses and developmental disorders. I see children devastated by our public schools that have not built the capacity to offer appropriate special education programs and services…and at this juncture will never in our lifetime educate these children to be maximally productive citizens and tax payers due to the state of special education, public education and non-existent mental health services or long term inpatient psychiatric care.
Let’s throw him away. Shame on everyone. I am sick and tired of watching children destroyed in MI and across the U.S. because adults can’t unite in a bipartisan effort to address the egregious shortage of pediatric psychiatrists and lack of access to psychiatric care, mental health services and psychiatric day and residential treatment facilities. Parents are losing homes and going bankrupt trying to provide the medical care and help that their children need. And don’t get me started on the lack of federal funding to research children with the early onset of psychiatric illness. That will have to wait for another post. It is easier to get a gun that to get a child the necessary psychiatric, mental health and special education necessary to turn every child into a maximally productive adult.
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