The article "Drug Them and Send Them Out" talks about health and medical, it was written by Randall Stafford.
It was around 1986, when my son Lewis was diagnosed of havnig ADHD.
I like using the term “accused” of having ADHD. I really disagree with anyone who goes that rotue to get the child to learn. Most of the time it’s the teachers of our baibes that does the diagnosing. Is that sane? Should we trust thier opinion.Yep, if you don’t like the way your child behaves you can take him or her to a doctor and chances are great that they’ll be placed on Ritalin. ( I really hope that isn’t true.)There are ohter reasons to take your child to a doctor. If by chance you don’t notice anything peculiar about your child, cahnces are your child’s teacher has. This turns into a discusison on whether you’re a fit parent of not.
If you refuse to give you child the drug, teachers have even threatened parents that they are abusing the child’s educational and/or emotional needs.Most of everything I’ve learned about that so called disease comes from reading horror stories.It was once stated by of the odler generation that “children should be seen and not heard”.
Naturlaly I took it like a joke. Sometimes I wonder if it was a joke.
Of course when you see a child on that drug, it appaers to me that they are “just seen”, and not heard.I am just wondering if we are complying to the teachers wishes just so we can make it easier for the teacher to cope with so many elementary kids.
Maybe at first thought, we don’t even think about that. However if you were a teacher and you had a bunch of first graders it’s posisble that you’d want to drug them all.That is not the right thing to do. My son was a very epuhoric child.
He definitely want to play. It was a shcok to him to go to school.
It was also very excitnig. As well as I thought I knew my own child, it was agrued that he wasn’t learning because he had ADHD. The teacher said she repeated kept him from going out to play just becuase he was disruptive.Let me diagnose that situation like I did then. Lewis watned to play all the time. So when it’s time for him to play, they would not allow it.
When all the other kids comes back in from recess, he is disruptive aagin. “Hmmm”, somehting is wrong with that picture. I suppose we sholud drug the little guy.Lewis was no longer an active participant in much of anything.
He was a zombie.
But oh, how euphoric the teacher was.Lewis was placed on Ritailn with a lot of pressure from the school. However, I hated it. I hated it more than anything I could think of. I constantly wondered what the drug was doing to him.
I felt like I knew how he felt.I personally had my day taikng speed while driving a truck. Before my son was born, I was told that speed will casue you to have heart problems, hair loss, and even weight loss.
It may even rot your teeth out.
It scared me then but my job wanted the load to get to the destination. I eventually quit that job just for that reason.It may not be caused by the drug, but my chlid eventually started doing things that should have been researched. It did not btoher him one bit to get into trouble. He eventually hit the huge time. He even went to jail at the age of 15.
He pretty much stayed there till he was 18.He wasn’t out long beofre he went right back in. It didn’t appear to bother him much.
I can’t explain it.
I have no words to expalin it.
He even repeatedly did drugs when he was out of jail.The bottom line is if you try to convince him that he is going down the wrong path, it appeared that he really didn’t care.
Myabe he was a zombie.Now, lucky for us, Lewis did not die.
He’s not on that drug anymore and he is out of jail and doing fine with a wife and child of his own.In my own opinion, I don’t thnik like that drug should ever be given to a child. I am sure that a lot of teachers and motehrs will disagree. Last, I don’t think the analysis of a child having that diesase is accurate.
I think it’s just an opinion.If you have a child on Ritalin, or if your child is diagnosed with ADHD, it is hottest you laern everything you can about the drug, the risks involved and the procedure for diagnosing the disease. Frankly, I don’t think it’s a disease at all.How can we win the war on drugs when we shove them down our own kids before they even know what a drug is. Kids die becasue of that drug.Everything you’ve read is JUST my opinion and I will not claim or accept any responsibility for you doing something based on that article. It is for your entertainment only.Randall Stafford
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