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Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city
You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder? Disorder
Now somewhere between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder
More wood for their fires, loud neighbors
Flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city
You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder? Disorder
Now somewhere between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder
You, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder?
Now somewhere between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder
When I became the sun
I shone life into the man’s hearts
When I became the sun
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To say things like this are overprescribed is an understatement. Especially when it comes to boys.
Case in point: When I was about four years old (75yo now), my grandmother told me she would give me a dollar if I could sit still for one minute. I never saw that buck. :)
If you have a medical condition in a school the Federal Government pays extra. Surprise , surprise, surprise! Things that were never considered a medical condition start appearing out of nowhere and the money flows in!
If I had been a young child today instead of back in the Sixties, they would have had me on Ritalin so fast it would have made the head swim.
I have all my report cards, and consistently from Kindergarten up to about the 8th or 9th grade, I was disruptive, wouldn’t pay attention in class, spent time drawing and reading non-classroom materials, or just looking out the window.
I think when I got into High School, I just shut up and retreated into a shell, but before then...
I got paddled a few times, and even lit a firecracker in French class in 7th grade and threw it under the seat of the kid in front of me.
Hell, they wouldn’t have given me Ritalin. They would have probably sent me to a special school.
Considering that America became inhabited by a bunch of risk takers, I think it’s pretty widespread in our gene pool, and we would be foolish to think of ADHD only according to the negatives, and not the positives. The positives greatly outweigh the negatives. IMHO.
I’ve always sort of figured ADD, later ADHD, was heavily pushed by big pharma and cooperating doctors as a drug selling scam.
Schools push chemical lobotomy because it gets them more $$. Doctors prescribe ADHD drugs for kids because it gets them more $$$. Remove the $$$$$ from this equation and 90% of ADHD will disappear.
You can talk about it, but you can’t understand it until you have lived as one who hasn’t beem shown how to recognize and accept it as one’s own born makeup.
It is a huge scam years of expensive testing meds private tutoring and stressed parents end up costing $100 K’s for just K-12th grade.By college they age out of the meds and do fine getting a Master’s degree in a subject that interests them.
ADHD is an imaginary disorder invented for the benefit of stupid teachers who are unable to keep up with their brightest students. I shudder to think of all the children who should be recognized and encouraged as potential geniuses but instead are medicated into a stupor for the convenience of the public education system.
My two cents.
People learn differently.
Hence there are learning channels.
Some folk learn better visually.
Others learn better auditorily.
Others are tactile or hands on learners.
Sadly auditory learning has gone by the wayside.
Listening skills are no longer valued.
A century ago when colleges were actually higher centers of learning, the best professors were the ones who had spent years perfecting their lectures.
From afar I believe students are given too much busy paper work at too early an age.
Too much focus on visual learning.
I still believe art and music should be a major part of elementary education.
Learning and schooling are two different things.
I remember when John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education got quite a bit of discussion on Free Republic.
It’s a good read.
Thank You. Excellent article. Reasonable analysis of the diagnostic and treatment problems.
At my nieces kids school every kid learns the violin. They do concerts during the year and it is a joy seeing them perform. Not all end up playing into the later grades but they all start out there.
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Schools are little more than prisons. Especially for boys. They lock them away in a sterile jail cell and force them to sit in u comfortable desks all day long when they should be out playing, wrestling, and rough housing.
I never believed in that adhd garbage.
ADHD not a real thing.....????
But, but big pharma made billions off the meds...?!?!?!?!?
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That’s why the old one room school houses were so good. The students advanced at their own speed.