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"JohnH" wrote in message ... On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:57:17 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message m... 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. John I had a Latin teacher who, in a past life, was a USMC drill sergeant. He knew how to deal with ADD, even though it didn't have a label yet in the 1960s (AFAIK). He'd get RIGHT IN a kid's face and yell loud enough to blow the kid's hair straight back. Worked like a charm. Everybody learned Latin. My 9th & 12th grade bio teacher did something equally terrifying. If your grades dipped below 90, or you didn't show up for her "voluntary" monthly after school review sessions, she'd call your parents and read THEM the riot act. She believed in fear as a motivator. It worked. Parents would start pulling strings and bringing cookies to the principal two years ahead of time to make sure their kids got her as a teacher, instead of the other teacher, who had some issues involving religion vs. science. And, many of us still walk around chanting "kingdom phylum class order family genus species". :-) |
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