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To: Poet who wrote (5124)	8/19/2001 5:52:36 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 6089

I am sure that is true. There is always the danger of seeing a drug help a person who is really in the middle of a problem, and thinking well if it helped THEM, it will help me be perfect. I think we are looking (in some cases) for perfect students. And we forget that humans are vastly different in their abilities. The child who may SEEM adhd may simply be bored, or very social, or extremely excited by something he wants to share. I had a child in my summer school class who was extremely disruptive- but in a completely different way. His disruptions had focus. He would be reading something, usually a science book, and he would get so excited about what he was reading he would have to share it with others. Totally different type of child. And yet when I met his dad in the grocery store last night his dad told me that some people had suggested his son was adhd. I could never figure out why this boy was put in remedial reading in the first place. He was a little slow on fluency, but he was obviously bright and if you talked with him you could see he had broad knowledge, including vocabulary knowledge- he was just developing a little more slowly in reading fluency. His dad told me last night this 8 year old boy has built two computers, and installs his own operating systems. So I despise the quest for perfect cookie cutter children, but I also understand the needs of parents (and teachers) with really difficult (and in some cases, unteachable) children. There is no good way to generalize and you have to hope all the professionals involved with children (and the parents) take things cautiously, but this is often not the case.