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Posted on 05/20/2017 6:18:31 AM PDT by Morgana
ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. - Two middle school teachers are out of their jobs after giving an award to an eighth-grade student.
A student at Memorial Middle School in Conyers, who has ADHD, was given the "Most Likely to Not Pay Attention" award at a school assembly this week.
Some parents said the award is insensitive and the teachers should have known that it was not right.
"Teachers are supposed to know what conditions their students have, and then to give them an award, that's totally ridiculous," parent Cheryl Davis said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...
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I would say the kid that does not pay attention to indoctrination by libtard mind screwers is actually given an award for high honors.
Does this mean suspension-with-pay until they retire on full pension, or makework jobs at the district headquarters?
It kindof depends on 1) what kind of ADHD it is, and 2) what the job is.
Some ADHD folks thrive in certain types of jobs.
I am one of those people who got the ADHD label and would prefer that they leave me out of it.
I prefer to think of myself as scatterbrained.
I guess publicly shaming someone with a disability is acceptable to you, so sad.
I would have been "labled" as (mild) ADD with some ADHD.
Some teachers didn't know what to do with me, others were great with me.
Every single teacher said I showed great promise, but had difficulty applying myself.
For things I take interest in, I can get focused, where hours pass like minutes. On other stuff, my mind is blasting in 3-4 different directions within minutes.
Most of my placement test scores showed high, but classroom work was less than.
In '92, I took a psych eval, to get admission to work in a nuke plant. (everybody takes one)
Through the test, they required me to take another test.
An IQ test.
Seems I scored 126 on their test. Which they described as "highly gifted".
Explains all the teachers saying I had potential, just didn't use it.
I'm glad that the ADD/ADHD label hadn't come out when I was younger. For some, it's an excuse not to do well. For others, an extra weight to overcome.
Me...
I'm happy knowing I was and still am just a problem child :)
A big part of ADHD is teachers teaching crap in slow motion. Thake a kid with an average or better IQ and try to teach them socialist sesame street for 8 hours a day and the only way to keep their attention would be to drug them.
You sound pretty normal to me.
Some kids, even middle schoolers are grounded enough to see the light hearted humor in such a label, depending on how it was expressed.
Didn’t others have yearbooks with students getting silly titles, such as ‘Most Likely to be rich before age 30’, or Most likely to be chased by ducks at a picnic’.
These remarks were mild teasing, not meant to be serious indictments.
It’s very likely this student in question DID NOT pay attention in class, and it was a well known fact in that classroom’.
“Some ADHD folks thrive in certain types of jobs.”
Bill Clinton does not count.
Dudes just say it okay? Kids like you and me in school were were called “incorrigible”. That is until some teacher who was brilliant got through to us and made a difference. That changed our lives forever.
“It’s very likely this student in question DID NOT pay attention in class, and it was a well known fact in that classroom’.”
I do believe this fact. There is nothing worse that a teacher hates than a student who does not pay attention.
If her brain is so damaged and mind is that far gone then really she should not be in the class room and should just have a private tutor at home. It’s a waste of the teacher’s time and the student’s as well. It would seem it’s too much of a stress for her and people are laughing at her because she can’t concentrate on her work.
I didn’t need an award for it.
Morgana's saying (I think) that the insensitive teacher should be shamed.
Or are you saying no, because the teacher has a disability?
The fact that the so-called teacher is functionally illiterate may be a basic cause of the effect. “...to not pay....is ungrammatical.” “...not to pay....is proper.”
Did they give a kid in a wheelchair the “most likely not to run in a marathon” award? Why are they giving awards for negative reasons anyway?
I think of Robin Williams when the topic of ADHD comes up. What a talent!
There are pros and cons with ADD/ADHD. You have to learn to take the good with the bad.
I have ADD, and was diagnosed as an adult, along with two of my children. I thrived in the classroom where there was some structure, but I am pretty creative too.
Once I’m in the “zone”, it is hard to get me to acknowledge anything else going on. I was called The Concentrator growing up, because I was in hyperfocus as a coping mechanism for all the distractions my brain was trying to pay attention to. As a result, everything else was tuned out, and I mean everything. The room could’ve been on fire and I would’ve been unaware. People had to physically contact me for me to adjust to moving my attention once I was in hyperfocus.
For me, the diagnosis was a part of accepting who I am. I realized that everybody has positives and negatives about their personality. It’s what makes us unique.
It’s a shame that schools continue to look at ADD/ADHD only through the prism of the difficulties. It’s a life long condition. In my opinion, it’s awful that that these two teachers chose to publicly humiliate that student. That’s not a good thing for teachers to do. Teachers should be looking for ways to encourage their students, not discourage them.
Kids with ADD/ADHD need to hear that they are still good people despite this diagnosis. Yes, they have problems, but everyone has some deficiency of one sort or another.
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