One thing is: just because a kid's a "handful" (most likely
bored at school), should he be drugged? Or should the school try some different approach, like making an effort to teach him?
There are lots of kids with special requirements. Isn't this just another one?
Another thought: kids like this probably don't do too well in the chaotic, directionless confines of the sort of elementary school classes I've seen. Not enough structure.
It's interesting that in the last forty years or so teaching standards have dropped and pupils are being doped up. In another forty years look for public schools to be full of glassy-eyed automata maundering through their ABC's year after year until they graduate.
AFZ
There won't be public schools in 40 years.
Hate to tell you this, but this has been going on for the last 20 years.
Only now is it becoming noticable where people are trying to do something about it.
I am a product of the public school system, but even then, it was wrote and regurgitation. I wasn't taught to think independently until HS.
Those years of school (even in a high-achieving school), were boring.
College was the same way until my last 2 years of it.
In another forty years look for public schools to be full of glassy-eyed automata maundering through their ABC's year after year until they graduate.
Fourty? Try 10-15.
I weep for the education of public school chhildren in the future.
-Maigrey-