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TIME TO GET SERIOUS!
This story screams out about the need for at least a minimal level of training for all our educational personnel. How can our students be safe if our teachers are not safe?
This is sad. That a school even needs to take these measures. This article indicates there are so many more deep rooted issues. Kids has no respect these days. As a society we should be ashamed it has come to this. In most poor urban schools this is the case. What happened? Time for corporal punishment??? A lot of it has to do with almost every kid being labeled with a ADD or Autism issue or behavior issue. Diagnoses for such has gone off the Richter scale. Is there any correlation between this and the free money the parents get for their problematic kids? (have a read of that Boston Globe series on how parents are scamming the government for money by having their children labeled as having some made up ailment) Blame the doctors who participate as well! I heard of a case where a parent was elated her three year old finally after all the visits to various different drs was labeled as having ADD. The child is 3--aren't all three year olds distracted? It is truly sad. Its wonderful to see those that are truly slow accomplish tasks on their own. There is a autistic/retarded man on my street and every day he walks to his job and back. He greets people and has a job suited for him. His family set expectations for him and he meets them with success. This man is 50. I cannot help but wonder that he would not have turned out to be the productive citizen that he is today if he was growing up in these times. Would he beat up the teachers?
Ms. Adams - First let me remind you that I, myself am a disabled person from an automobile accident 30 years ago that left me with a brain injury. I am retiring because of my deteriorating physical condition from DMR. I was involved in direct care. Before that I worked for 7 years in a DYS facility for adolescent males in WV. I have two children with ADHD and my son also has autism.
Your insinuation that kids with those diagnosis provide a lucrative cash stream is sadly mistaken. There are no pots of gold at the end of this rainbow. If there was it still wouldn't be enough to compensate for the difficulties I've had to endure with this diagnosis.
As for the blame for the behavior of the kid's today, our generation has to take at least part of the blame because it is our generation that has been charged with guiding them.
If the old days were so much better how did we get to this point.
This is sad. That a school even needs to take these measures. This article indicates there are so many more deep rooted issues. Kids has no respect these days. As a society we should be ashamed it has come to this. In most poor urban schools this is the case. What happened? Time for corporal punishment???
ReplyDeleteA lot of it has to do with almost every kid being labeled with a ADD or Autism issue or behavior issue. Diagnoses for such has gone off the Richter scale. Is there any correlation between this and the free money the parents get for their problematic kids? (have a read of that Boston Globe series on how parents are scamming the government for money by having their children labeled as having some made up ailment) Blame the doctors who participate as well! I heard of a case where a parent was elated her three year old finally after all the visits to various different drs was labeled as having ADD. The child is 3--aren't all three year olds distracted? It is truly sad. Its wonderful to see those that are truly slow accomplish tasks on their own. There is a autistic/retarded man on my street and every day he walks to his job and back. He greets people and has a job suited for him. His family set expectations for him and he meets them with success. This man is 50. I cannot help but wonder that he would not have turned out to be the productive citizen that he is today if he was growing up in these times. Would he beat up the teachers?
Ms. Adams - First let me remind you that I, myself am a disabled person from an automobile accident 30 years ago that left me with a brain injury. I am retiring because of my deteriorating physical condition from DMR. I was involved in direct care. Before that I worked for 7 years in a DYS facility for adolescent males in WV. I have two children with ADHD and my son also has autism.
ReplyDeleteYour insinuation that kids with those diagnosis provide a lucrative cash stream is sadly mistaken. There are no pots of gold at the end of this rainbow.
If there was it still wouldn't be enough to compensate for the difficulties I've had to endure with this diagnosis.
As for the blame for the behavior of the kid's today, our generation has to take at least part of the blame because it is our generation that has been charged with guiding them.
If the old days were so much better how did we get to this point.