I’m a fan of Peter Breggin and the like, ever since my kid’s elementary school tried to force me to put my kid on Ritalin.
I held them off but it wasn’t pretty, and they had no problem blaming every grade she received under an A (not too many of them) on the need for Ritalin. At one point they told me they’d deny her entry into an advanced reading class unless I had an IEP for her - that ploy didn’t work, but they made her life miserable that year because of it. It’s the main reason we started homeschooling - then we continued homeschooling because we loved it.
Sorry, but in many ways I despise most members of your profession. You sound like one of the good ones, like Breggin.
My kid too. He did miserably in a private school, even worse in a public school.
Our years home teaching him have seen his learning curve soar! He was learning Algebra II and reading and comphrehending on a college level at age 14, just 26 months after having failed 6th grade. All it took was 9 months in high school and we were back to home schooling.
He will be taking his GED in about a year so he can go on and do what he wants rather than languishing in high school. His retention ability has increased greatly, and we don’t really know why. This article has perhaps given us a clue. Our family members have always been late developers, and know I may have a clue as to why that is so.