Teen Screen Survey Questions - An inside look

Some parents by now are wondering exactly what kind of questions will be on the survey issued by Teen Screen. Thanks to a trustworthy source, we've acquired just that! Parents, we appeal to you, DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO TAKE THE TEEN SCREEN SURVEY.

Why? What could be the harm? You may ask. Did you know that over 84% of the results are false positives? That means that those 84% and more students are PERMANENTLY labeled as a mental health risk, and their psychological profiles will be labeled as such. Think about this: Your child takes the TEEN SCREEN survey and receives a "positive", but in fact it is a "false positive" result. You both are then subject to an onslaught of suggested tests and medications by the "professionals" who issued the survey. If you and your child survive that, later in life he or she will be branded as a quack, not able to get work with any reputable company that checks psychological profiles. You see unlike criminal records, psychological profiles stay open...

The harm? This program has been proven to have alterior motives. That is to push the psychiatric drugs from the pharmaceutical companies down the throats of unsuspecting kids. Your child can be one on them. So before you make any haste to allow your child to take the program's survey, review the questions below. Later, make a self examination of you as a parent and see if you could ask those same questions to your child. Its better when a parent ask these questions in the privacy of your own home as opposed to a group of strangers psychologically raping our children.

List of questions on a Teen Screen survey that may be asked:

• Has there been a time when nothing is fun for you and you weren't interested in anything?
• Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything right and that you were not a as handsome or pretty as the rest of the students?
• How often do your parents get annoyed or upset with you because of the way you are feeling?
• Have you ever felt nervous when you had to do things in front of people?
• Have you often worried alot before playing a sport or activity?
• Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year?
• Are you still thinking about killing yourself?
• Have you thought seriously about killing yourself?
• Have you often thought about killing yourself?
• Have you ever tried to kill yourself?
• and many more like these...

The Teen Screen program uses questions like these to label our children. How many of us parents would pass this test? The fact is, all of us, no matter who you may be have had some negative thoughts, BUT that in no way makes us out to be a mental case. Think seriously before allowing this government program to test your child. We as parents should be assessing our children for this problem, not the Teen Screen program.

Passive Consent

Many of you may not realize this, but the Teen Screen Program uses the very sneaky tactic called the Passive Consent Form to lure students into doing the so called "mental health survey". What exactly is Passive Consent Form? It is a form that the Teen Screen program gives the school to send home with the students. If the students do not return the form within the required time allotted by Teen Screen, the program will consider the parents' failure to sign AS consent!

The Passive Consent form has been utilized as a tactic to perform the tests on the children without the parents consent. As with all sneaky program forms that are worded the right way, the passive consent form relies on the parents not reading this form correctly. Most of the time, parents are required TO return forms as consent, but this form requires parents to return forms to OPT OUT of the program's analysis.

Note to all parents when you receive a form from your child's school. Read carefully!

School Systems Getting Hip to Teen Screen

The Teen Screen Program is so transparent that even school systems are not participating in the program. Some tried it out and some out right refused. These school systems deserve an applause for their brave stance against the Teen Screen Program. Below is a listing of a few school systems that have said: "NO" to Teen Screen. Hopefully more will be added to this list as more come to the realization of what Teen Screen REALLY is!
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CALIFORNIA
Alhambra Unified School District
Ramona Elementary School
Date: Sunday, Jan 18, 2007
Reason for saying NO: "The TeenScreen program no longer exists at Ramona School."

Fresno Unified School District
February 8, 2007
Reason for saying NO: "We have no interest in or intention to adopt TeenScreen"

Hoover High School
February 8, 2007
Reason for saying NO: A 2 year TeenScreen pilot was done at Hoover High School in the Fresno Unified School District. Result? See above.

San Francisco Unified School District
Date: Monday, Jan 22, 2007
Reason for saying NO: "Passed on TeenScreen because it can
generate false positives and drain counseling resources."

CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport Public Schools
Bassick High School
Harding High School
Date: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:12 AM
Reason for saying NO: "The program was located at Bassick and Harding High Schools. It was not successful and the District discontinued it."

Date: Wed, December 13, 2006 10:53 AM
Reason for saying NO: "TeenScreen was not seen as helpful and no data was ever provided to the community."

FLORIDA
Flagler Palm Coast High School
Reason for saying NO: Screening will halt as of Oct 2006 due to lack of funding.

Hillsborough
Date: Monday, Mar 01, 2004 10:20 AM
Reason for saying NO: "Our district has not yet felt comfortable with the information provided by Teen Screen to implement it anywhere in the district. We are exploring the possiblity of doing a pilot at Gaither High School, but have not had all of questions answered by the organization. They [TeenScreen] continue to say to others that Hills. Co. has "partnered" with them when, in fact, we are still only exploring." Hillsborough decided to not implement screening.

Pinellas County
Date: January 25, 2005, the Pinellas County School Board decided that TeenScreen should not be implemented.
Reason for saying NO: Board Chairwoman Nancy Bostock called the program "an intrusion for our students.'' False labels could embarrass students and cause turmoil at home. "We could seriously do more harm than good," she said.

GEORGIA
Cobb County School District
Date: Sat, June 3, 2006 5:11 PM
Reason for saying NO: "We have decided that TeenScreen was and is still not a good fit for Cobb Schools."

ILLINOIS
Urbana High School
Date: Thur, Aug 31, 2006 7:01 PM
Reason for saying NO: "We did use TeenScreen last year, but the person who did it left the District. I have been informed that we will not be doing it again this year."
INDIANA
Clay High School - Southbend Community School System
Date: Tues, Aug 8, 2006 12:55 PM
Reason for saying NO: "The school corporation pulled back because of controversy in another district."

John Adams High School
Date: Tues, Aug 10, 2006 4:58 AM
Reason for saying NO: "Adams no longer uses teenscreen. It has been an issue that the corporation has decided that none of the students will be involved."

Lawrenceburg High School
Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 9:25 AM
Reason for saying NO: "The school corporation is experiencing severe budget problems at this time. As a result, our guidance department has lost staff resulting in not offering the Teen Screen program this year."

Penn-Harris-Madison
Date: Friday, Feb 2, 2007 6:50 AM
Reason for saying NO: "We discontinued TeenScreen at Penn High school because we had a very low response rate from parents when we requested written permission to administer the screening to students."

IOWA
West Burlington Jr./Sr. High
Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2005 8:33 AM
Reason for saying NO: "We will not be using the TeenScreen program again"

West DesMoines Schools AEA 11
Valley High School
Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 11:49 AM
Reason for saying NO: "Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, is no longer considering the implementation of Teen Screen."

MICHIGAN
Clio Public Schools
Date: Thursday, Oct 19, 2006 7:25 PM
Reason for saying NO: "We do not now - and have NEVER - permitted TeenScreen to screen our students. Yes....we DID invite them in to speak with us and we looked at the program. However, we decided not to go forward."

NEVADA
C.W. Woodbury Middle School
Date: Tue, September 05, 2006 8:01 AM
Reason for saying NO: "We are not going to use TeenScreen again at Woodbury."

Green Valley High School
Date: Tue, January 02, 2007 3:01 PM
Reason for saying NO: "Green Valley High School no longer
participates in the TeenScreen Program, nor does the school plan to do so in the future."

NEW YORK
John F. Kennedy Catholic High School
Date: Thur, Oct 19, 2006 at 9:47 PM
Reason for saying NO: The president of the school confirmed that the school is no longer involved in that program whatsoever"

East Syracuse/Minoa School District
Date sent: Mon, June 12, 2006 10:40:03 AM
Reason for saying NO: "There was a funding issue"

NORTH CAROLINA
Moore County School District
Date: Mon, June 5, 2006 2:29 PM
Reason for saying NO: "We have/had made no commitment to the program and are not planning to implement it."

OKLAHOMA
Douglass High School
Date: Wed, Sept 20, 2006 2:13 PM
Reason for saying NO: "Last year someone contacted us and actually did the program for us. This year I have not heard from anyone."

Emerson High School
Date: Thur, Sept 28, 2006 6:36 PM
Reason for saying NO: "We are not using the screening program anymore."

WASHINGTON STATE
Lynden School District #504
Date: Wed, June 7, 2006 8:01 PM
Reason for saying NO: "We have been told to halt all screening at this time."

WEST VIRGINIA
East Fairmont Jr. High
Date: February 5, 2007 10:44 AM
Reason for saying NO: "Computer issues were a problem."

WISCONSIN
Kenosha Unified School District
Date: Wed, February 14, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Reason for saying NO: "TEENSCREEN IS DEAD IN KENOSHA"

Wisconsin School for the Deaf
Date: Fri, October 20, 2006 11:29 AM
Reason for saying NO: "The Wisconsin School for the Deaf has not implemented the TeenScreen instrument."

Washburn School District
Date Thu, June 15, 2006 10:00 AM
Reason for saying NO: "We did receive a mini grant but did not use and returned grant funds."

More Parents are Getting Hip to the Scam

As the years progress, more parents are getting hip to the scam of Teen Screen. Teen Screen among many American protesters has received the nickname, "Teen Scam", and rightfully so according to thousands of parents and kids who protest the government program. Recognizing it as a way to put more kids on psychiatric drugs, more parents are saying NO to Teen Screen.


Protesters in Anaheim, CA and Nevada


Niagara Falls, NY

Westhaven


The overall message that these parents and thousands of others across the country are trying to relay is: "We love our children! Stop misdiagnosing them to boost your drug sales!"

The Funding Source Behind Teen Screen

The Teen Screen program started making headlines as an ill-conceived and unscientific method of screening for mental illnesses among school aged children and teenagers. The first claims were that the Teen Screen Program could identify children at risk for volatile behavior and suicide. Of course they would need a pretty strong argument in order to get funding for this unscientific method of personality profiling. Someone came to their rescue however. It may shock you, then again it may not shock you to know who it was that came to the Teen Screen Program's aid - The pharmaceutical drug industry.

That's right! Monies filtered into the program can be directly tracked back to the pharmaceutical drug industry. What is more, certain members of those drug companies actually helped develop the survey questionnaire which is given to youngsters who participate in the Teen Screen Program.

Does that really surprise you that the main program that puts young children on medicines like: Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, and Xanax; is funded by the very pharmaceutical companies that manufacture these drugs. Is it really a coincidence that the developers of the Teen Screen Program are paid members and contributors of these very companies?

Many parents of young children are waking up to the fact that the Teen Screen Program is just an elaborate way to bolster the sales of prescription psychiatric drugs in America. Now is the time to wake up and realize the conspiracy. Join the "No to Teen Screen" Petition and let your voice be heard!

The Face behind TeenScreen

Teen Screen was developed by psychiatrist Dr. David Shaffer. Dr. Shaffer is one of the best in his field, and he is the developer of the program, yet he cannot back the Teen Screen program 100%. Why? Because this governmental funded program is full of inconsistencies, and even its founder knows this. Case in point, here are two quotes from a few years ago by the good doctor himself.
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Dr. David Shaffer is not only the developer of the TeenScreen Program, but also a spokesman for the manufacturer of Prozac, and is also a paid consultant for 3 pharmaeutical companies, most notable GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. David Shaffer on False Positive Results
Shaffer says that Teen Screen "does identify a whole bunch of kids who aren't really suicidal, so you get a lot of false-positives. And that means if you're running a large program at a school, you're going to cripple the program because you're going to have too many kids you have to do something about."

When asked how he talks to people who express concern over False-Positives being prescribed medicine, he says: "I think that standing by itself that criticism is meaningless because we don't know what harm the antidepressants do, if any, and we don't know who they do harm to".

Shocking BBC Radio Broadcast on TeenScreen

Some may wonder if all the major school shootings could have been prevented. It is alarming that many of them could have been prevented! If we look back on the school shootings that made headlines in America and abroad, it's scary to admit that all of the children were on some kind of medication utilized by the FDA. For instance, the Columbine High School shooters were both on antidepressants. Eric Harris, one of the shooters, was on the strong medication Zoloft and then later Luvox at the time of the killings. The other killer, Dylan Klebold was on Zoloft and Paxil - two very strong adult medications!

Take a moment to listen to these alarming statements by the BBC radio. (8:23)

Why is TeenScreen So Controversial?

TeenScreen came onto the scene as something that was state of the art and revoluntionary for screening for mental illnesses in school-aged children. Soon however, the truth was revealed. The Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia stated that the suicide rate for children ages 10-19 is rapidly declining. This fact contradicts the claims that TeenScreen can screen and identify a child (or teen) at risk of suicide. In fact, TeenScreen interferes with the workings of the American family. The US government and its TeenScreen program is putting its business where it doesn't belong - In the American family's household.

A computer is used to screen our children for high risk behavior such as suicide. Computers have been known to be wrong. The US government is making grave mistake by entrusting the future well-being of our children to computers. The result of the TeenScreen test will follow your child for the rest of his or her life, affecting future relationships, jobs, opportunities and more. Are you confident enough in this program to allow your child to take it? If you are, how well will he or she do? The honest truth is: There isn't a way to know for sure how the child will fair for the test. But as stated before, the results will follow them well into adulthood.