There is no medical money in people who are not patients, just as there is no "special ed" money in students who are academically succeeding. If you fill the schools with activist "therapist" hammers, most of whom probably became therapists because they themselves actually need therapy, all students become nails. The irony of competition-free, tax-funded service providers (such as the government schools) is that they have reverse, perverse incentives, and so become playgrounds for charlatans, especially Democrats pretending to be helpful folks, folks who measure their own success by how much of your money they're shoveling into their systems. In the private sector, persistent failure is discouraged via defunding due to lack of customers. In the government schools, persistent failure is rewarded, with captive taxpayers being chastised for not spending enough and consequently (and stupidly) voting to have their tax rates increased. Taxpayers themselves have reverse incentives; subsidized parents are brainwashed to believe that more money equals better education, so they vote to increase the tax burden on their childless neighbors and on corporations, thereby increasing their net subsidy despite their own personal higher tax payments. Of course when their subsidy disappears (i.e. when their kids leave school) they flee to lower-tax areas, leaving their former jurisdictions to collapse under the tax burden they voted for.
The root of the psych-therapy insanity, like all other government-school insanities, is our socialist school system. Socialist systems, with their captive funding sources, are immune from the natural selection of customer feedback, so they are inherently filled with incentives to fail and consequently require ever more money in search of ever more failed initiatives. I wish that we "conservatives" would wake up and realize that THE ROOT IF ALL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FAILURE IS ITS FUNDING MODEL, and consequently that THE "PUBLIC SCHOOLS" CANNOT BE FIXED, NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, because socialism cannot be fixed, no matter how hard we try. We might as well try to make water run uphill. We can never do enough work to earn all the money needed to fix a system where the entire administration is incentivized to fail, and ironically the more money we shovel in, the more we incentivize an ever-larger school staff to fail even more.
There is no medical money in people who are not patients, just as there is no "special ed" money in students who are academically succeeding. If you fill the schools with activist "therapist" hammers, most of whom probably became therapists because they themselves actually need therapy, all students become nails. The irony of competition-free, tax-funded service providers (such as the government schools) is that they have reverse, perverse incentives, and so become playgrounds for charlatans, especially Democrats pretending to be helpful folks, folks who measure their own success by how much of your money they're shoveling into their systems. In the private sector, persistent failure is discouraged via defunding due to lack of customers. In the government schools, persistent failure is rewarded, with captive taxpayers being chastised for not spending enough and consequently (and stupidly) voting to have their tax rates increased. Taxpayers themselves have reverse incentives; subsidized parents are brainwashed to believe that more money equals better education, so they vote to increase the tax burden on their childless neighbors and on corporations, thereby increasing their net subsidy despite their own personal higher tax payments. Of course when their subsidy disappears (i.e. when their kids leave school) they flee to lower-tax areas, leaving their former jurisdictions to collapse under the tax burden they voted for.
The root of the psych-therapy insanity, like all other government-school insanities, is our socialist school system. Socialist systems, with their captive funding sources, are immune from the natural selection of customer feedback, so they are inherently filled with incentives to fail and consequently require ever more money in search of ever more failed initiatives. I wish that we "conservatives" would wake up and realize that THE ROOT IF ALL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FAILURE IS ITS FUNDING MODEL, and consequently that THE "PUBLIC SCHOOLS" CANNOT BE FIXED, NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, because socialism cannot be fixed, no matter how hard we try. We might as well try to make water run uphill. We can never do enough work to earn all the money needed to fix a system where the entire administration is incentivized to fail, and ironically the more money we shovel in, the more we incentivize an ever-larger school staff to fail even more.
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Great article! We’ll done. Thank you for spreading the word on what I’ve dubbed the “therapeutic education model” - let’s hope it sticks!
Your work on the therapeutic education model is so important. I am glad to do everything I can to amplify it.
This is depressing. My kids suffered from this. I’m not sure we can ever get this back out of schools.