--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is interesting to point out to these people that there could > easily be a case made that NOT incorporating something that has so > much published peer-reviewed positive research behind it, shown to > have so many beneficial results for kids, is a crime of negligence by > our school system and the states. They should be prosecuted without > delay. > > Incorporating unproven, undocumented, unpublished methodologies, > procedures, and programs into schools should be outlawed, or at least > slowed dramatically, and ANYTHING that has several peer-reviewed > published positive results for school kids should be incorporated (as > an act of court). > > Lacking this simple rationale has caused massive problems in schools > and even brain-damage in children (as well as created drug-addicts in > the case of behavioral pharmaceuticals which were ordered upon kids > to 'shut boisterous kids up'). In the extreme cases this ignorant > approach is criminal, and the perpetrators should be prosecuted (not > to mention the soft drinks machines that until recently were in the > school corridors and the staple snack diet of the now obese younger > generation) > > OffWorld
No boiserous kid is EVER shut up by taking ADHD medicine unless they DO have ADHD. That doesn't mean that some other treatment wouldn't have been better, only that there's no way in hell that a normal kid calms down when given uppers.
