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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5120)	8/19/2001 5:21:28 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

Hi X, Sorry for the delay. I was out all afternoon, running to a wine tastingnow. Briefly, the little boy in your class sounds so sadly typical of a child with an actual soft neurological disorder (like ADHD). My older daughter has had a lot of the same trouble in school: inability to finish tasks, constant cutting up (luckily she's very funny rather than destructive) and the like. She was put on Ritalin for about a half of a school year and it did something that allowed her to slow herself down enough to get a feel for what I can only call "a learning rhythm" (my apologies to Mrs. Peel for exercising poetic liscence here). She managed to get through the rest of school without psychotropics, but had to take tests (including her SAT's, on which she scored higher than I) with no time limits. I do think there's an epidemic of medicating kids in schools at this point in history. Like many of these social phenomena, I think it sprung out of appropriate use with chilrdern who truly benefitted. Perhaps like explosion of Prozac use among dysphoric adults?