De-Funding of Full-Time Mental Health Social Workers and Therapists from DCPS and Charter Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just checked out the petition and they have like 900 signatures and if you google it you find absolutely zero press about this. Its probably not even true.

YOU GUYS LOST! Give up! Wake me up when we get a new Panda at the Zoo or when the Nats opener is. you can make fun of me if you want but people dont care about therapists doing therapy for black people, give them case managers so they can be told how to live their lives correctly and maybe google maps to find their missing children.

+1

[Anonymous]

So sad. "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

[Anonymous]

Actually, the petition has 1,063 signatures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Wake me up when we get a new Panda at the Zoo or when the Nats opener is. you can make fun of me if you want but people dont care about therapists doing therapy for black people, give them case managers so they can be told how to live their lives correctly and maybe google maps to find their missing children. "

Every post has a person that uses Google's idiot filter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Wake me up when we get a new Panda at the Zoo or when the Nats opener is. you can make fun of me if you want but people dont care about therapists doing therapy for black people, give them case managers so they can be told how to live their lives correctly and maybe google maps to find their missing children. "

Every post has a person that uses Google's idiot filter.

+1000

[Anonymous]

For those who don't depend on NBC for coverage:

Link to March 23, 2017 Council Hearings on Tanya Royster's last failed initiative:

http://dc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3835

[Anonymous]

Jump to 1:16:16 in the video link provided above.

[Anonymous]

Vincent Gray specifically speaks to the school mental health fiasco at 1:20:40

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Wake me up when we get a new Panda at the Zoo or when the Nats opener is. you can make fun of me if you want but people dont care about therapists doing therapy for black people, give them case managers so they can be told how to live their lives correctly and maybe google maps to find their missing children. "

Every post has a person that uses Google's idiot filter.

+1000

I agree, clearly the person who initially wrote the statement has issues, but arent they right in some way? The news cares more about pandas, shiny objects, weather, and more recently...a Will Ferrell themed bar coming to H Street. I mean come on, if this story is true (expert therapists out of school systems) then where is the news story? Not even a blurb? You can say idiot filter all you want, but the truth is we are all idiots if a Will Ferrell themed headline is beating this major story. So who is the real idiot, the one who writes a stupid post on a blog or the journalists and readers who allow idiotic non important stories to permeate the news?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Vincent Gray specifically speaks to the school mental health fiasco at 1:20:40

Video links were great! Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I know this may be a stupid comment but don't social workers have a pretty big advocacy group that should help with this? What I recall about the nurses fiasco was that their major groups stepped up to advocate.

[Anonymous]

Does anybody have a timeline on updates or when the next hearing is for this to be approved or not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this may be a stupid comment but don't social workers have a pretty big advocacy group that should help with this? What I recall about the nurses fiasco was that their major groups stepped up to advocate.

Not really. The people who got the school nurses thing changed were parents

[Anonymous]

So then my next question would be, where are the parents/parent groups? Do they care or not really?

[Anonymous]

From what I have heard is that there have been parent groups who have spoke out and are continuing to speak out. The next thing to look out for is if our council listens to the people and the groups or they dont.