What You Can Do
What Actions Can You Take as a Parent?
You can do something about your child’s education and take action to get the right solutions. In fact, your actions as a parent are crucial to ensuring your child receives a safe, effective education.
Get Informed
Investigate
Research your child’s school. Do they endorse labeling and medicating children? Do they distribute psychotropics on a daily basis? Do the teachers get paid to label? If yes, this will tell you a lot about who is “educating” your child.
Questions to Ask
If you are being told that psychiatric medication is the only solution to your child’s educational difficulties, and you do not agree with this determination, you do have options, and you do not need to go along with their suggestion or insistence.
If you are told your child needs medication for a "learning disability" ask:
- What medical test (blood panel, MRI, etc.) was done to verify the “disability?”
- What are the side effects of said medication?
- How many children have been cured using the medication?
- If the medication fails, or my child experiences side effects, against whom do I file a lawsuit?
If you are told your child needs medication for a "chemical imbalance" ask:
- What is the chemical?
- What medical test (blood panel, MRI, etc.) was done to verify the “imbalance?”
- What is the imbalance? (Is it too high or too low?)
- What are the side effects of said medication?
- How many children have been cured using the medication?
- If the medication fails, or my child experiences side effects, against whom do I file a lawsuit?
Note: The decision to medicate or not medicate your child is completely up to you as the parent. Other than raising awareness about the dangers of psychiatric medications, H.E.L.P. Miami teachers and staff are not qualified medical professionals. This information is provided solely as a resource for parents and is not and should not be taken as medical or professional direction or advice.
Helping Your Child Starts at Home
The best way you can help your child is by being the best parent you can be.
Give your child your attention. Read to your child or read with them. Get your child off electronics and spend time with him or her cooking, fishing, playing sports, etc. Give your child responsibilities around the house. Keep a schedule. Serve good food. Remove sugar. Set a good example. There is no end to what can be done to improve as a parent. I firmly believe that children are a direct reflection of their parents.
The bottom line is that children who are raised right are much easier to educate.
Not Happy With Your Child's School?
If you are not happy with your child’s school start home-schooling. Check the laws in your state to see how to proceed. In some states it is perfectly legal to home-school the children of other families as well as your own, which means you could earn income by charging fees to families in need of your service. (Just realize that if you sign up for the state approved home-schooling curriculum it will be the same nonsense taught in school.)
You can also get in contact with us for information and help with establishing a school.
Share Your Expertise
If you are a professional in the Miami area you can volunteer at H.E.L.P. Miami and share your expertise with our students. We have had numerous professionals who have shared their knowledge and skills with our students, resulting in inspired learning and new interests.