[azhenfud]

I have a friend who was advised to "medicate" his son because the teachers claimed he disrupted the class. This kid's IQ is 182+/- and the teachers were often being corrected when they taught mistakes, so their least resistive method (they reasoned) of dealing with the boy was to drug him with Ritalin.

The boy was placed into a private school, graduated at 14 yrs old, entered a School of Math & Science and will graduate college before twenty.

This case points out those who may also actually need medication with those psychoactive drugs....

Regards,
Az

[Tired of Taxes]

I have a friend who was advised to "medicate" his son because the teachers claimed he disrupted the class. This kid's IQ is 182+/- and the teachers were often being corrected when they taught mistakes,

This is always a big discussion in our household, and my husband thinks that, if he were a boy in elementary school today, he would be labeled with ADHD and medicated. He saved all his report cards from grade school back in the early 70's, and, just like the boy you mentioned - he got all A's, except for "conduct" where he would get a "D" and a teacher's written comment, like: Needs to learn to stay in his seat. Needs to learn to keep his hands to himself. Needs to learn to stop interrupting the teacher.. He said he would finish his work before everyone else, and then start walking around helping other students, and correct the teacher when she was wrong. Lucky for him, his mother was a teacher, too, and she pulled some strings and got him switched to a better school.

[rb22982]

This kid's IQ is 182+/-

Goodness, unless this is on a different scale than I was taught, 130 is top 2.5%, 140+ is 1%, 182 must be like .0001%.