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I remember when I was in grade school, I'd get home from school, and then go out and play for about 3 hours every day, before dinner. Games like "king of the hill," baseball, football, or kickball. Stuff that would wipe a kid out, giving him a chance to burn up all that excess energy. Now, so many kids just sit around, playing computer games or watching TV, and that energy has nowhere to go...

A good point. But what does that have to do with drug profits on school kids?

Actually, most people don't want to discuss how eager many parents are to sedate their children, to have just one more reason why their little darling is so special and has such special, special, special needs that someone (other than themselves) must deal with.

I think a strong return to corporal punishment by the schools might be healthy too. First, whack the kids. Then whack these idiot lazy stupid parents ten times as many strokes as you give the kids. Do it publicly.

"I think a strong return to corporal punishment by the schools might be healthy too. First, whack the kids. Then whack these idiot lazy stupid parents ten times as many strokes as you give the kids."

The parents deserve the strokes for not applying dicipline in the home and for "blaming" everything else for their kid's behavior. Until dicipline is established and administered in the home, educators will seek to take the least resistive path, which happens to be "diagnosing" the child with a having "problem" that conveniently releases both parent and educator from accountability. Many times, the parents are happy to have the results of their failure to administer punishment excused by medical reasoning.

I know of a parent today whose child never is diciplined corporally at home, has become unruly and obnoxious, was "diagnosed" with ADHD, and - get this - the parents (mother) first blamed sugar, then red food coloring, the child's friend, then the dog for their problem. All the while I'm thinking these parents, the child, the educators, and the doctors need a flogging for not recognizing the actual culprit - the parents' seeking an "excuse" instead of applying the rod of correction....

Regards,
Az