The Medicaid Connection

Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future.

—Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Psychiatrist, in his address at the 1973 Childhood International Education Seminar.

The following is part of a letter sent out to the Nine Mile Falls School District Community in 1995:

In 1994, the Clinton's attempt to impose universal health care was defeated. Although the Clinton's did lament this defeat to some degree, they did not do so with the rancor that would suggest that the battle had been lost. And it wasn't. Universal health care is being "backdoored" into the schools, through Medicaid, as you will see in reading the documents that follow. In the 1995 Legislative session, SB 5276 changed all references in Washington Code (RCW's) from "handicapped" to "children with disabilities" which carries a much broader definition. Eventually, all children will be labeled "learning disabled". This will make them eligible for a wide variety of Medicaid services, and all school districts eligible to received Medicaid funds. You will see, in reading the documents that follow, the incentive to schools and physicians to get children on the Medicaid dole.

Two years ago, in September, 1993, Nine Mile Falls School District applied for Readiness to Learn grant money administered by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The 21-month grant, for $101,790, was selected by the Family Policy Council. This year I have heard from parents about personality profiles being done on children; I have heard from parents being pressured to establish Individual Education Plans (IEP's) for their children; I have heard from parents who have found derogatory and unsubstantiated information, damaging to the family, placed in their child's school files. This all fits the scenario.

. . . Parents, for the sake of your children, your family, please get involved, find out what is going on. If you do nothing, you may not like what will be done for you, and to you and your child, over which you will have no control or recourse. [Signed] Lynn M Stuter

This letter was followed by documents concerning the Desert Quest program in Kennewick School District in Washington state; documents that laid out how a class of fourth (4th) grade students were subjected to behavioral risk assessments. These assessments, which contained personally identifiable information, were given to a psychiatric center without parental knowledge or consent. A parent, appointed to the Desert Quest Study Committee, charged with investigating the matter, found that the rules of the committee kept the committee from addressing financial or legal issues. The parent could not understand why the constraints and began investigating. What the parent uncovered was shocking evidence regarding the foundations and intent of this program; evidence that was turned over to the Washington State Legislature; and about which the Washington State Legislature did nothing.

It is now 1999, and where does this situation stand, not only in this school district, but all across the United States of America? The links to the left give the reader a full picture of why Medicaid can be found in their local school and what it means for EVERY child attending government schools.

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