Posted on 08/19/2010 3:38:18 AM PDT by tlb
For anyone who does not know Ritalin is a Class 3 narcotic.
Any parent that lets a school commissar dope their kid is guilty of child abuse.
bttt
This is why we never hear of British and European children with ADHD. It is an American scam.
Still say things like chewing gum should be allowed as a stress reducer.
Ditto. I was 6 days under the cutoff for being in the next grade so, consequently, I was younger than all my classmates. "Can't sit still" (still can't), "Can't focus"(because I learn very fast and the topic bores me, notice I got an A?). I would have been a doped up zombie.
The ADHA diagnosis allows for no one to be responsible: parents, teachers or the identified individual. That’s why LIBs like the diagnosis. No one is responsible.
The ADHD diagnosis allows for no one to be responsible: parents, teachers or the identified individual. That’s why LIBs like the diagnosis. No one is responsible.
Chemically, how close is amphetamine to methamphetamine? That is, how close is ritalin to meth? It has got to be close.
Your case of interest is an exception.
Yep.
And 'adults' use Ritalin to get high. Its similar(1) to cocaine.
(1) In its effects.
In our town the child study team was using these surveys to classify the children.
Points against the child if the parents are divorced, etc.
What age the child was toilet changed, etc.
Madness.
It is all about money plain and simple. I’m not even talking about services to the parents, it is about money to the school. The whole idea of school now is not about actually teaching kids but it is about tests. In order to teach to the numerous tests given throughout the year, the kids are forced to go over and over the same information. There is not any experimentation, hands on learning, even fun and interesting activities. Just teach to the test. And as a teacher you veer from what they tell you to teach you are toast. I have talked with many teachers about this and they are not pleased with it either.
When my youngest was in elementary school, they would change his curriculum every year, basically everything he learned was a short cut to get the test scores up. One of his teachers told me that it was a shame that they had taken out the electives that offered the kids more hands on learning like shop class, etc. it was a great outlet for kids like my son who were more hands on learners.
Previously at the HS level our kids could take a technical route or college route to plan their HS classes. They have now eliminated the technical route, college prep only. I live in a rural area, not all kids are meant for college nor do all kids need college to be successful. It is a mess. The Board of Ed has screwed these kids so bad just to get more funds, and the govt. has attached so many strings that it is a vicious cycle that only hurts the kids.
It is.
My childrens' generation were not so lucky. We called the elementary school counselors the "prescription team" as they could offer no other solution than RITALIN, etc. So, I watched other parents dope their kids and witnessed these little dope heads morph-away as new creatures. All someday must answer the question, WHO AM I? (without the drug)
Childless spinsters are more objective in rearing. Having no children to eliminate their objectivity, they can see clearly the shortcomings of children who are constrained by the various home derived cultural norms. Being childhood development professionals and properly educated in the through psychology of the field, these spinster women have vision denied to mothers too close to the children.
The current extra stimulus funds of $26 million will insure all are allowed to continue their excellent and absolutely necessary work with out fear of being laid off.
thanks for posting
Right analogy, wrong drugs.
"Amphetamines" (of the good ole days. 'Momma's Little Helper') are not like Meth as Meth is x10 times more powerful and addictive. And neither is chemically close to Ritalin.
Ritalin is like Cocaine in its effects and Coke is not close to Meth or Amphetamines. 'Adults' use Ritalin to get high. ('Coke?!? Oh Nooo, I'd never do Coke').
It's a shame that Amphetamines have been effectively banned. They did serve a useful purpose. And you'd have to take an awful lot, and I mean A LOT, of 'Bennies' to get addicted. (I liked the Green ones over the White ones, kept you awake & alert longer)
The USAF still hands out 'Bennies' to Pilots, at least until a few years ago.
They wanted my son on meds so bad. He did not have outrageous behavior problems, just could not sit day in and day out with all of the nonsense busy work.
I told them, you are saying that my son, who is 11 can take apart a go-cart or dirtbike, fix it and put it back together, can spend time studying and making his own fishing lures, build a treehouse, etc. is incapable of learning because he cannot focus?
Check out the BS school work they come home with. Nothing but photocopied worksheets, and that is all they do in school too.
They took away basketball at recess because someone fell on the blacktop, they took away kickball, they took away anything that involved teams.
When I went to school we had lunch then recess, that gave us a good hour to let it all out. Now some classes go to recess at 10 am, wth? They just got to school!
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