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True story: I was medicated in the 3rd grade for being hyperactive. (It didn't help, of course, speed only helps actual hyperactive kids, and I wasn't one.) In the fourth grade, Lucille Davis -- I hope hope hope heaven is everything it's cracked up to be -- said, "Take him off the meds. He's not hyperactive, he's bored. I send him to the school library for five hours a day, and he never gets in trouble there."
Not every noisy problematic child is ill.
Mothers are clever like that.
True story: I was once suspended from school for 3 days. The vice-principal heard me utter a profanity, I believe it was "piss", but long time gone, I'm not sure.
He said, "Profanity is a mark of a small vocabulary." And I said, "Really? Cuz I'll match my vocabulary for your vocabulary, word for word, any time, anywhere, for any amount of money."
I was, of course, grounded until I was 40.
But an hour later, confined to my room, I heard her on the phone w/her friend, "And so *he* said ....".
True story: I was medicated in the 3rd grade for being hyperactive. (It didn't help, of course, speed only helps actual hyperactive kids, and I wasn't one.) In the fourth grade, Lucille Davis -- I hope hope hope heaven is everything it's cracked up to be -- said, "Take him off the meds. He's not hyperactive, he's bored. I send him to the school library for five hours a day, and he never gets in trouble there."
Not every noisy problematic child is ill.
@GeePawHill I had the opposite experience to this. They just thought I was bored and gave me a ton of extra work to do.
I had ADHD the whole time.
I get the feeling it's a gender thing. If I were a boy, they likely would have medicated me. If you were a girl, they might have considered boredom instead?
(Important: I think ADHD in children is over-diagnosed. But it's not an imaginary problem, and it can be quite severe, and I have seen, multiple times, firsthand, how much speed can help those children who actually have the problem.)
@GeePawHill My father was a 34 year 8th grade teacher, same subject, same classroom, and he thought kids were over medicated in the 70s.
But. He saw the real change Adderall can make in kids that are actually sick, and he was blown away. Still hawked the med referrals hard, but always gave ADHD kids that chance.
@Sempf Right? Once you see how much it helps the ones with the reality of the symptoms.
True story: I was made to wear a cardboard sign around my neck, learning third grade Spanish.
It was a big cardboard mouth, and it had the words "La Boca Grande" on it.
I loved that woman, Mrs. N. She was beautiful.
She made me wear a cardboard sign around my neck.
@GeePawHill My grade school librarian, bless her, stopped me one day and said, "I know you've read everything here. Take this note to the junior high librarian up the hill and she'll let you start checking out books there." #librarians
@msbellows Cuz fuckin' librarians, innit.
@GeePawHill I mean, she was great and everything, but that was a very step hill that made my legs hurt. A *true* friend and ally would have installed a funicular.
"Profanity is the refuge of those whose vocabularies are insufficient to add emphasis to their statements in any other manner."--Isaac Asimov
"Fuckin-A right!"--me
@Uair You damn *skippy*. :)
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