Even though this story has received some coverage in the New York Times , the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , and the Drudge Report , that's been about it.
Some libertarian commentators smell a big rat and are convinced that the story is being suppressed.
It's a scheme to detect the nonconformists and stigmatize them early on. This may or may not be so, but it's hardly necessary for it to be true in order to justify concern among those who wish to check America's steadily accelerating slide toward totalitarianism. The notion of identifying 'troubled' students with an 'elevated risk of violence' is just as scary. It may sound like a good idea, to some, at first blush, but Mosaic-2000 rates students from 1 to 10 on a series of behavioral questions. By definition, this so-called focus on 'prevention' means that it's the larger group of kids who haven't done anything who will be screened.