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by DanBC 4017 days ago
So, here's one example of your stigmatising views and assumptions:

> I think that the school board is at fault for not inquiring why a person who works primarily with children is receiving psychiatric services.

You assume the school board didn't make any inquiry. For all you know they did. But more than that you assume that merely receiving psychiatric services is enough to need a check - regardless of displayed behaviour. You're saying "mental health problem == risky", when you have no evidence to support that. Feel free to provide something to support it.

> No, you should not be a teacher or in any profession dealing with children if you cannot behave properly,

Here you link poor behaviour to mental illness. Most poor behaviour has nothing to do with mental illness. Most people with a mental health problem live fairly normal lives.

You should probably stop using bullshit reasons to restrict the work that people can do, especially when those bullshit reasons are a result of ignorance.