[Teacher317]

I had one student whose parents and therapist were adamant about labelling with Augsberger. He was an unmotivated C student, and didn't seem "different" at all. He was moderately unresponsive to social situations (not laughing when the class laughed, etc). That was about it. He had friends, and liked to laugh and talk with them privately.

Why that called for an entire battery of tests, specialists, and scholastic perks (tesing in separate room with a "helper", more time for tests, more time for homework, two periods per day with specialists, etc) was self-evident... the school got more money, the specialists justified their own existence (while the student body grew by over 200 over 5 years, we got only 1 new teacher position added... and 6 new specialists), and the mother (whom I would've had tested for Munchausen by Proxy, personally) had her hysteria assuaged (temporarily).

The child's grades did not imporove, he said he didn't want to be "different" and put in special classes, and the staff got more paperwork. *sigh*

[FourtySeven]

Just as a thought:

If Rush makes fun of virtually any group at any one time, does anyone know, does he make fun of drug addicts?

[ApesForEvolution]

Placing children in front of the boob-tube and allowing them to shovel shatty junk food all day, in lieu of real parenting, is something many 'career-oriented' 'parents' won't take on themselves.