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Rescuing our kids, not popping pills into them : Comments

By Peter West, published 17/12/2009

ADHD: thousands of kids around the western world are needlessly drugged every day.

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Clownfish,
I'm sorry for your son's difficulties. I certainly am not blaming dads!

Absent Dad Disorder, is a single factor, only a small part of the picture for some ADHD sufferers.

The main culprit is the removal of everything that boys enjoy and find motivation from school and teaching techniques. Changes in 'pedagogies' have taken direct competition out of school - and boys thrive on direct competition and marks. Instead they concentrate only on 'expression' and 'collaboration'.

Put in simple terms, instead of 'doing stuff' and 'getting a result' which motivate boys. School now is about 'talking about stuff' - which motivates girls.

Something must explaine how boys used to get the same average mark as girls, and now they get an average year 12 result that is 20% below the average mark for girls.

Boys haven't changed, school has.
Posted by partTimeParent, Sunday, 20 December 2009 11:16:56 PM
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