WaNee Referendum
October 31, 2018 at 4:27 p.m.
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To My friends in the WaNee school district, here’s why I’m voting “No” on the referendum. While I’m not opposed to adding safety measures to the school building itself, my concern is with the mental health counselors that are included in the name of “safety." WaNee is one of 9 Indiana districts trying to pass a referendum this November.
Let’s first look at what’s driving the implementation of mental health counselors. First off, the push started with the Lilly Counseling Initiative in 2016 in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce. Here’s a look at Lilly.:
“Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family — J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J.K. Jr. and Eli — through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. While those gifts remain the financial bedrock of the Endowment, the Endowment is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion and maintains a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana.”
Through the first round of grants from Lilly, WaNee already received $298,644.
In addition to my concern with the mental health counselors, I’m also concerned with parental rights violations that will come with these counselors.
I believe that the recent history of these violations at WaNee prove this should be a concern for all of the community. I realize that many do not understand the implications that this brings, but being one who has heard the first hand accounts from moms whose parental rights were violated, I believe that a yes vote opens the door for this to happen. Once this Pandora’s box is open, there will be no closing it. Regardless of stating otherwise, Dr. Croner cannot guarantee it will never happen any more than he can guarantee no teacher will push porn in the classroom such as we’ve seen.
Further, while it is easy to blame the unfortunate home life of many kids in our community, we cannot ignore the fact that the pornographic book list which contained stories of murder, prostitution, suicide, rape and the promotion of abortion would also impact the mental state of the students. When you couple that with the never-ending assessment testing and homework overloads, it’s no wonder kids are on the brink of tears and stressed out.
With that in mind, I believe that for the government to help create a crisis and then come in to “fix” the problem only exacerbates the situation. Not to mention that the pharmaceutical industry will stand to gain from kids being prescribed drugs to cope.
Therefore, I encourage my friends to take this into account on Tuesday, November 6th and vote “no” on this referendum.
Rhonda Miller
Nappanee, via email
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To My friends in the WaNee school district, here’s why I’m voting “No” on the referendum. While I’m not opposed to adding safety measures to the school building itself, my concern is with the mental health counselors that are included in the name of “safety." WaNee is one of 9 Indiana districts trying to pass a referendum this November.
Let’s first look at what’s driving the implementation of mental health counselors. First off, the push started with the Lilly Counseling Initiative in 2016 in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce. Here’s a look at Lilly.:
“Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family — J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J.K. Jr. and Eli — through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. While those gifts remain the financial bedrock of the Endowment, the Endowment is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion and maintains a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana.”
Through the first round of grants from Lilly, WaNee already received $298,644.
In addition to my concern with the mental health counselors, I’m also concerned with parental rights violations that will come with these counselors.
I believe that the recent history of these violations at WaNee prove this should be a concern for all of the community. I realize that many do not understand the implications that this brings, but being one who has heard the first hand accounts from moms whose parental rights were violated, I believe that a yes vote opens the door for this to happen. Once this Pandora’s box is open, there will be no closing it. Regardless of stating otherwise, Dr. Croner cannot guarantee it will never happen any more than he can guarantee no teacher will push porn in the classroom such as we’ve seen.
Further, while it is easy to blame the unfortunate home life of many kids in our community, we cannot ignore the fact that the pornographic book list which contained stories of murder, prostitution, suicide, rape and the promotion of abortion would also impact the mental state of the students. When you couple that with the never-ending assessment testing and homework overloads, it’s no wonder kids are on the brink of tears and stressed out.
With that in mind, I believe that for the government to help create a crisis and then come in to “fix” the problem only exacerbates the situation. Not to mention that the pharmaceutical industry will stand to gain from kids being prescribed drugs to cope.
Therefore, I encourage my friends to take this into account on Tuesday, November 6th and vote “no” on this referendum.
Rhonda Miller
Nappanee, via email
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