Eisboch wrote:
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.

That's ridiculous. It is not the school's job to decide
whether or not a kid should be given behavior modifying
drugs. It is the school's job to report the kids behavior
and let the parents make the decision.


.... 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.


That's spooky. The teacher as a drug pusher? New paradigm or
nightmare socialist power-grab? That teacher should be put
in drug rehab herself.

People who cannot be happy or productive have the choice to
take drugs, but the drugs can only change their perception.
Drugs will not change reality. And people who choose to take
drugs are dope addicts, whether they take vodka or heroin or
prozac or some ritalin-equivalent.

It is abhorrent to me that American society has sunk to the
level of insisting that citizens must be drugged in order to
"fit in." This is the kind of stuff that horror/science
fiction novels were about 30 years ago.


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.


She'll self-destruct sooner later. Best to keep distant from
such an individual.

DSK