More than you know...
My oldest son was diagnosed ADHD, not by the schools, but by a board certified psychiatrist.
He was prescribed medication. They started at the lowest possible dose and went up as need.
Not like the school diagnosed kids that they start on the highest dose and work down.
The schools diagnosed my youngest son with ADHD.
We took him to the same psychiatrist that diagnosed son #1.
The answer from him was not no, but hell no.
We KNEW, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what ADHD looked and acted like.
The schools get more money to deal with ADHD then with a normal kid. This is why they do this.
As a side note, the oldest was an A-B student. Then he came to us when he was about 13, and asked to be taken off the drugs. He said he did not like how they made him feel.
We said OK, but your grades are probably going to drop.
And they did.
But, I never saw someone work so hard to get the grades he got.
He has carried this well into adulthood, and is highly successful.
And as another side note, I wonder how many of these school shootings and the like, had the kids on or withdrawing from these psycotrophic drugs?
We’ve raised an entire generation or two on drugs, processed food, lack of exercise, excessive number of vaccines, etc.
A lot of these kids today are being raised by parents that were on the same drugs their kids are on now, except many of the parents have moved on to excessive alcohol usage and things like anti-depressants, etc.
There is no wonder we have these mass shootings and millions of Americans who are drug dependent either on prescribed or illegal.