6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 4:13PM #51 | |
The next year the teacher was also bored and didn't bother with the slower, or faster, kids. My grades showed that. It's not always the fault of the child and not every child that acts up in class needs to be medicated.
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 4:17PM #52 | |
***Excuse me ... ??? I have NEVER posted any such Thing ...
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6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 8:43PM #53 | |
But you know how it is. When in a debate you constantly criticise only one side and never criticise the other, then you're perceived as belonging to the other. You lost your credentials as neutral arbiter. I say this because I noticed this repeatedly in your posts; you claim a neutral stance, but when voicing critique never are even-handed. It's one-sided or silence. Do you recognise yourself in what I just wrote, I wonder?
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6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 10:56PM #54 | |
Here's what I think ... It ISN'T about being "neutral" ... It's about being THOUGHTFUL ...
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6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 10:59PM #55 | |
Here's what I think -- NOT "neutrally" but THOUGHTFULLY ... I'm NOT "against Meds" ... I AM in FAVOR of CAUTION in Diagnosis and Prescription ...
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6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 11:27PM #56 | |
Yes, and I am at your side. |
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6 years ago :: Mar 10, 2012 - 11:42PM #57 | |
"Moderation" is almost EVER a Good Thing -- even in taking a Physician's Advice and/or Prescriptions ...
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6 years ago :: Mar 11, 2012 - 9:06AM #58 | |
Thanks, Teilhard, for writing "I am not against Meds" - when reading carefully, we all could have known. But unfortunately, we cannot assume people read carefully here, and it's better to explain a full stance instead of giving just short aspects of it. The internet is very conducive to fragments, and people have to make up their minds based on the fragments of stances that others post. As Malcolm Gladwell correctly observed, this tends to facilitate conflict and disagreement more than agreement... So in this spirit, I also might add that I amm certainly not in favour of "better diagnosing one too many than one too little" - it can have bad consequences in both directions. I was very impressed by Abner's story of a student being "liberated", as it were, by being diagnosed and getting a label and a concrete set of measures to handle himself. It can help when accurately done, and that is the sole purpose of the medical business. From one of my sons' school classes, in primary school, I know the case of a boy who in class had to sit on one of these bounce balls / spacehoppers to be able to focus. It first distracted the other children, but after a while, learning in class sped up and they all formed a protective community, including the ADHD boy. Drugs are not inevitable under all circumstances. And yes, I also know negative examples - of parents projecting all sorts of deficiencies into their children, just to distract themselves from their very own big task of educating them. That can lead to wishful ADHD diagnoses, I would guess. Never underestimate a mother's willpower...
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6 years ago :: Mar 11, 2012 - 11:01AM #59 | |
EVERY individual "Case" is a UNIQUE Human Being, NOT just a Membrane Sack of DNA-driven Physiologies and Syndromes ... Unfortunately for any of us would-be Healers, Human Beings are almost ALWAYS more complex than our Categories like to admit ... |
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6 years ago :: Mar 11, 2012 - 11:33AM #60 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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