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Originally posted by Lizanabavi
Far too often it is racism: I can not tell you how many of my students have been labeled ADHD and they were'nt. When I first began teaching, I taught at a predominately white school and was given the "problem" children who were deemed deficit.
All with the exception of one were black, I reviewed their files and it made me sick what they contained. After a certain period my students grades; test scores; and, behavior improved. My co-workers were "amazed" at how well those "problem" students behaved. Whatever.
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I'm pretty surprised about that. The school I attended from 4th to 8th grade dispenced ritalin and dexedrine left and right, 95% of those were white males. The black kids were just labelled as stupid or bad. The white kids were labelled as ADD/ADHD.
Anyways, I have serious issues with this label. The condition definately exists, however it is being overdiagnosed. While I think discipline does play a part in reducing this problem, I think the solution lies in the educational system. The demographic that is most likely to be diagnosed is school age boys. The primary schooling system is not accommidating for young boys, even for a few girls. I used to be a psych major and done a few researhes on this condition for class, I stumbled on a statistic that
20% of 5th grade boys are diagnosed. Bottom line, normal boy behavior is being pathologicalized.