Quote:Adam Lanza had always been a child in need of help.

At age 3, he was referred to special education after he began to exhibit oddly repetitive behaviors and couldn't socialize like most kids.

By fourth grade, he had been diagnosed with anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and autism.

Yet year after year — as psychiatrists insisted that Lanza should be on treatment and strict medication — his mother Nancy refused to follow through on the requests.

She chalked up her son's behavior to a presumed superior intelligence, seeing him as a gifted student, despite testing done by experts showing he presented average intelligence.

But, as the years went on, the truth became clearer: Adam Lanza was a deeply troubled young man who obsessed over mass killings as he fell deeper into a pit of mental illness while his mother ignored his struggles

These are the findings of a new report by the Office of the Child Advocate in Connecticut, which released on Friday a 114-page dossier about the life of the shooter who massacred 20 children and six adult staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on December 14, 2012.

The report charges that the local school system enabled Nancy Lanza as she accommodated and appeased her son — even as he became more withdrawn socially and exhibited frightening signs of his obsession with murder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ssues.html

Government rights shall trump parental rights. That is the theme that will emerge here.

It probably is true that the school let the overly-protective, know-it-all, pushy mother make tragically bad decisions against the school’s better advice; however, you know that they are going to draw exactly the wrong lessons from this and use it to enact laws that permit school and government bureaucrats to force kids who aren’t murdering psychos to bend to the government’s will over the protests of their parents.

Like this situation?

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/8-...er-vaccine

Quote:The school told McNicholas that her daughter needed to get a Tdap booster shot, a state-mandated vaccine for whooping cough that also prevents tetanus and diphtheria, or she would not be allowed to return.

The mother refused to do so, saying her doctor told her the shot wasn’t safe for children younger than 10.

According to the FDA website, the Tdap booster shot is recommended only for children older than 10.

(11-21-2014 04:20 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Government rights shall trump parental rights. That is the theme that will emerge here.

It probably is true that the school let the overly-protective, know-it-all, pushy mother make tragically bad decisions against the school’s better advice; however, you know that they are going to draw exactly the wrong lessons from this and use it to enact laws that permit school and government bureaucrats to force kids who aren’t murdering psychos to bend to the government’s will over the protests of their parents.

There is an old saying that succinctly sums up the tragic direction in which American society is going:

Quote:Everything within the State. Nothing outside of the State. Nothing against the State.