Michael moore: Drugging of Children

An interesting interview, and I agree. The pill has pretty much replaced the role of proper parenting among other things IMO.

It's all about the money, and it's sickening. In the same breathe, the complete degredation of the american education system is shocking and appalling.

drugs are bad m'kay.

They tried to give me ritalin when i was younger.. Good thing my parents refused it.

Crombie wrote: complete degredation of the american education system is shocking and appalling.

Blame G. Bush for this, the No Child Left Behind Act has done a shit-ton to wreck our education. The obsession with standardized tests and lowest common denominator teaching ("well, if we make it too hard and the kids fail sometimes, they might feel bad") have made our educational system very weak. There are moments where you can tell a teacher has to just stop and spend 20 or 30 minutes explaining the most basic concept in a class, which a student should already know. I've seen this in my higher level classes, when a student who obviously has no idea what they're doing, wastes so much time asking questions they should already know the answers to and thus wasting the rest of our time and the teachers.

/first-hand

Pariah wrote:

Crombie wrote: complete degredation of the american education system is shocking and appalling.

Blame G. Bush for this, the No Child Left Behind Act has done a shit-ton to wreck our education. The obsession with standardized tests and lowest common denominator teaching ("well, if we make it too hard and the kids fail sometimes, they might feel bad") have made our educational system very weak. There are moments where you can tell a teacher has to just stop and spend 20 or 30 minutes explaining the most basic concept in a class, which a student should already know. I've seen this in my higher level classes, when a student who obviously has no idea what they're doing, wastes so much time asking questions they should already know the answers to and thus wasting the rest of our time and the teachers.

/first-hand

Pariah is stepping out of line and mildly agitated! Pump him full of drugs!

HydrasBreath wrote:

Pariah wrote:

Crombie wrote: complete degredation of the american education system is shocking and appalling.

Blame G. Bush for this, the No Child Left Behind Act has done a shit-ton to wreck our education. The obsession with standardized tests and lowest common denominator teaching ("well, if we make it too hard and the kids fail sometimes, they might feel bad") have made our educational system very weak. There are moments where you can tell a teacher has to just stop and spend 20 or 30 minutes explaining the most basic concept in a class, which a student should already know. I've seen this in my higher level classes, when a student who obviously has no idea what they're doing, wastes so much time asking questions they should already know the answers to and thus wasting the rest of our time and the teachers.

/first-hand

Pariah is stepping out of line and mildly agitated! Pump him full of drugs!

I would totally love to have an adderall prescription though.

Yeah I was one of the ADHD kids.

I didn't even realize the effects of the drug until I was in Junior High, so I stopped taking it around then.

I don't know if it's really all about money with that, but more taking the easy way out. Although there are a lot of drugs that are about money, there are even cases that conditions have been invented as a result of a drug being made(see:viagra).

All and all I think using drugs to correct problems like ADHD, minor anxiety etc are going to fuck us over in the long run. We shouldn't become dependent on this shit, we were well enough without it before.