On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:57:17 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:40:57 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

"As Sommers understood, it is boys’ aggressive and rationalist nature
- redefined by educators as a behavioral disorder - that’s getting so
many of them in trouble in the feminized schools. Their problem: they
don’t want to be girls."

It is not just a boy/girl thing. Public schools want to dumb everyone
down to the level of the insipid assholes who run the public school
system. If some kid does start to show creativity or finds themselves
bored with this dull gray regimen they immediately get labelled ADD
and get drugged into submission.



That's absurd, and you should know it.

Not absurd at all. My daughter went through a very emotional, decision
making process last year with her oldest son who is 6 years old. Four
school officials (two teachers and two administrators) were fighting among
themselves about if drug treatment would help his "daydreaming" nature. One
of the teachers who was the most vocal advocate of the treatment finally
admitted that she had self-diagnosed herself with adult ADD and was on
medication. She even started to recommend what type of medication he should
have.

My daughter finally sought advice from her family doctor who told the school
teachers and officials to leave the kid alone .... he's a perfectly normal 6
year old.

The teacher in question got very demanding, bordering on threats to go to
social services to support her recommendation.

Eisboch


Glad to hear your daughter stuck by her guns. It's not the job of a teacher
to diagnose mental problems. But, I've heard plenty of cases where they
have.

Once a disruptive student's mother told me she couldn't do anything with
her son because she had ADD. She further told me that the boy's father had
ADHD. She acted as though these were badges of honor, absolving them of any
responsibility for the boy's behavior. That left only me to be responsible.
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