I have to say that I am disgusted with the school systems. My son has something that used to be called ants in his pants. always gotta be doing something. well here is the deal, we took him (at the order of the school system) to a Dr. and he promptly diagnosed the issue as being ADD. that having been said they told us to put him on concerta, which is a ritalin type of medication. Here in lays the problem in that it made him into a zombie, I mean sure the teachers had a nice calm classroom but my kid might as well have been asleep. Now we moved him into a school that is geared for High IQ kids and a fast pased learning. He is doing great. to top it all off they have gym twice a day, and I mean a structured gym where they have to play team sports and leagues and such. Only two stipulations, he cannot be on any kind of medications, and he cannot have access to the internet. If he needs to do research on the computer then they have all the encyclopedias on dvd's over the internal network. Computer games are allowed within reason and the like. Well we took him off all the meds and stopped his internet access, and let me tell you that was at least 3 months of hell with the adjustment period and all and now he is in this new school and they don't have any problems. This country has become to used to the quick fix and the like. Teachers have become lazy or overworked with the sixe of the classrooms growing as they are. I mean when I was growing up we had 26 kids in a classroom and one teacher. and we all got an education. Today, you have approx. 22 kids in a classroom a teacher and a teachers assistant. Dunno, but as a parent I have to tell you that this does not bode well.
now i get a call from the system telling me that tehy need to have him evaluated for next year to see what meds he needs to be on. This is nuts the kid is off all the meds and doing well to boot.
Any thoughts or ideas?
