Teachers? I'm unfamiliar with this story, as that was well past my time, but surely MDs and parents should shoulder more of the blame? I suppose, although it seems to me that sort of thing happened in the old days also, without the shootings. Do schools spend a lot of time on gun fear? I suppose they probably do now that there are school shootings every 15 minutes, but did they before the shootings started? I guess I'm not sure you've got cause and effect sorted out correctly here, although I guess it could be a vicious cycle type thing. barfo
Absolutely, parents and doctors shoulder blame as well, but I grew up in it. Teachers would recommend to the parents of rambunctious kids that they should look into ADD/ADHD drugs. I didn't say that schools are entirely responsible, but I do feel that there is a link. A connection. Did you have a lot of classrooms where it was 30+ kids to 1 teacher back in ye olden days? Absolutely they do now. I don't think it's one of the original issues, but I think that it has contributed and made the issue worse.
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Nate tells the story correctly. Essentially, teachers and school administrators have the authority to identify a child as a "problem" and place them on an "individualized education plan", which can include (for the sake of the rest of the class) that the child must be medicated or removed from the public school system. When parents who cannot afford private education are given that ultimatum, the essentially have no choice but to submit to the school mandate.
I too can verify the obsession with teachers and what was then called ADD when I was a kid. Having children now, I find talking to them and teaching them some mental discipline works well...that sounds militant. Let me rephrase to mental techniques. And watching what they eat. And making sure they exercise and get bored every once in a while and take time to read and be calm and reflect on their days...etc. That being said, there are kids that seem unable to focus without help. But still, when I was a kid it seemed EVERYONE was diagnosed with ADD.
Yikes. Glad I wasn't ever part of that (other than by being part of the problem by being unaware and doing nothing). barfo
Getting back to the thread topic, Mychal Thompson and Sheed went through this crap for years and now Meyers too. I don't see why they can't play a guy at his natural position?
