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That may be correct and I am not disagreeing (and here is the..) but I have read stories of parents who are warned about having their children kept out of school, doctors who interview the teacher and watch the child for five minutes. This can not be a coincidence. There are school districts where 40% of the young boys are medicated! Please do not tell us that there is not abuse going on. Doctors are financially rewarded for prescriptions why not for prescribing ritalin? Teachers can not diagnose legally, but for all intents and purposes their "strong suggestion" is equal to the same thing.

Here's why it gets over-diagnosed: schools get more money for "special-ed" kids. It creates a financial incentive. Teachers find that rowdy boys can be made less rowdy if they're drugged. It makes life for the teacher easier

Schools have a list of docs/shrinks that they recommend. The docs get paid for each evaluation. The docs understand that if they do not give the evaluation that the schools want to hear, then they will be dropped from the list and get less business. This gives the financial incentive to the doc to provide the diagnosis that his real customer (the school) wants him to provide.

100% CORRECT. I went to a private school, and we STILL filled out the forms for school lunch because (until it was cut) the government paid money fore ease APPLICATION not qualifying student.

As parent, I would be very alarmed at these NEA hacks destroying the futures of little boys for money.

The public school has been really good with my kids. They tested my son and told me he was gifted and not ADD as his private school teacher thought.

With my daughter, she is not falling under special ed, but they did get her reclassified under a traumatic brain injury. She's doing well academically, but they knew she needed help.