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Thousands of Ritalin pushing teachers around the country are scared out of their wits now....

They may actually have to deal with what generations of teachers before them had to deal with - an active, rambunctious, normal kid

I think it's aided by parents who don't want to deal with bad behavior.

More parents are spending the majority of their time working, so when they get home and little Tammy and Jonny have just spent 8-10 hours in a rambuncious day care, little Tammy and Jonny have energy to expell and attention they crave from Mom and Dad.

However, Mom and Dad are stressed from long hours at work to pay for the outrageously expensive house and SUV they've enslaved their life to pay for, so they don't want to deal with hyper Tammy and Jonny.

Enter Dr. Pharmesuetical. He says Tammy and Jonny are ADHD and some magic pills will calm them down. Wallah...Tammy and Jonny get drugged. Now Tammy and Jonny aren't corrected for their behavior so they have a built in excuse to be wild. Tammy and Jonny also learn...if you feel stressed take drugs.

What a great future we're headed for when these drug dependant kids need to take up the slack and support America. UGH!

"Thousands of Ritalin pushing teachers around the country are scared out of their wits now....

They may actually have to deal with what generations of teachers before them had to deal with - an active, rambunctious, normal kid"

Yup. I've got a kid that's easily bored by school (and I can't blame him...I was the same way at his age...sitting in front of a chalkboard 7 hours a day was absolute torture for me at that age, and I think that's true for many kids). The teachers were always sending us notes, and this got my wife to have him examined. Of course, the diagnosis was ADHD. I refused to let them use Ritalin, so they put him in Adderall. He got ultra-skinny, developed tachycardia, and we had to take him to the emergency room once because his heartbeat shot up life threatening levels (he collapsed in his mothers arms and she carried him in the hospital).

I said "Fsck It", took him out of public schools, got him off of those damned meds, and we now homeschool him. We get to spend more time with him (I love teaching him math, geography, and government...his mom teaches him the other subjects), he no longer has the racing heart. Best thing we ever did. He has a new little brother now, who will never be subjected to that same crap.