A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Scott does an interesting about-turn on "disabled":
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Do you know what the cure for "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder"
used to be?

SMACK! "Now shut up, sit down and study, or you'll get another, and
worse!"

Seemed to work pretty well for most students for, oh, a couple of
hundred
years. Note that this corporal punishment is not to be meeted out to
the
disabled student who is incapable of control, but to the OTHER students
who
are allowing themselves to be distracted by what ought to be ignored.
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So, you're suggesting that the cure for chemical or hormonal
"disabilities" are "smacks upside the head". Hmmmm...... And the kid is
supposed to know, from the SMACK, why his mind doesn't work like
others' minds?

Did you fail to read the sentence beginning with "Note" and ending with
"ignored?"


So, Scott, exactly where are you able to draw the line and distinguish
between what you call "the disabled student who is incapable of
control" and those with ADHD?

Oh, it's pretty clear most of the time. Those in wheelchairs with profound
mental disabilities are the "incapable of control" group. Unruly children
who have never learned that they are not in charge are in the other group.
It's pretty easy to identify the second group after even a short period of
observation.


And, further, why do you distinguish?

Because it's the difference between an actual mental disability and simple
lack of discipline and self-control. One can often be cured with a swift
kick in the ass, the other can't. Even a dog can be taught not to pee on the
carpet.

Is it just because the ADHD kid
*looks* "normal"?
You feel it is OK to pick on the disabled so long as
they don't look like they are?

Children with "ADHD" aren't "disabled," they are "under-disciplined" and
"unmotivated" to act appropriately. I frankly doubt such a thing as ADHD
even exists, except in the devious minds of drug-makers and their research
lackeys.

Funny how this "disability" was only identified after a generation of
undisciplined, over-stimulated children raised by incompetent,
mollycoddling, permissive parents started going to school, drug-company
researchers saw a golden opportunity to sell more prescription medications,
and school officials saw a way to drug unruly students into lethargic
zombiehood so they didn't have to deal with actually disciplining a child.

You ought to watch "Supernanny" sometime to see obvious examples of parental
failures in discipline that could very easily be "diagnosed" as ADHD by some
school bureaucrat. They do that, you know. A school bureaucrat can simply
*claim* that a child is "suffering from ADHD" based on his "expert" opinion,
and the vast majority of the time the parents believe it and their kids end
up drugged into a stupor.

I'd rather teach them to pay attention, thank you very much.


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