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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (179173)	9/10/2001 8:29:17 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What concerns me is the travesty of giving psychotropic drugs to children......especially very young children. The blame here is shared by the funding and by the pharmaceutical companies who are now marketing their products to younger children. SInce the adult market for Prosac was saturated, the company making the drug started targeting younger children. They didn't target them by advertising to the children, but to the pediatricians who are also at fault for prescribing them. There is alot of fault to spread around. If a child needs a drug it should be prescribed by a psychiatrist and only under monitored circumstances. In some cases there are children that do need mind altering drugs but they should be carefully monitored by an MD who is a specialist in that arena.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (179173)	9/10/2001 8:44:33 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The per-pupil cost of public schools averages $6,000, compared with $3,100 for private schools. In other words, all else being equal, we could abolish all public schools and the taxes that support them tomorrow, let the market replace them with private schools, and cut the total cost of education by nearly half. Why isn't this done? The short answer is that there are many people on the payroll of the education bureaucracy who would be unhappy." --Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Sounds goods as long as they are non-union schools....