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Children Taken to Mental Health Facilities From School Grounds Imagine if children, who know they have already broken a school rule, under the pressure of getting in trouble at home, answer mental health questions that ask them things they would only discuss with their best friend. And imagine upon evaluation, they may be deemed by the psychologist to be a “risk to themselves or a risk to others”. Once the child is deemed such a risk, they are escorted, by a law enforcement official, to a receiving facility for involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward. A Mother's Story A mom was told that her son didn't "fit-in" with the other children because he wouldn't sing his ABCs along with the other pre-schoolers. The message from the school teachers and school psychologists was a message that this one mother didn't want to hear, year after year, "Your child needs to go on medication." Imagine being told you have to put your child on a medication that will alter his basic personality forever. This is the story of one mother and what she learned along the way.