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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
Here is a case:
6 y/o child is diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder. 
Parents are well educated. (Um, I know about that...)
AA child attends 99.9% non-AA school (private). The child does not regularly ask questions, answer questions, etc in class. Did I mention he was 6? Okay. The school refers the child for PSYCHIATRIC services. The parents agree and his is on ZOLOFT. Has been for 6 months.
Last school year (at a different school), the child asks his mom, "when will there be other black kids in my class?" Okay. He was 5 y/o at the time. 2D thinks...GET YOUR CHILD OUT OF THAT SCHOOL! Then, he gets in an altercation where this NON AA student bites him. The school labels this child (non-biter) as AGGRESSIVE. One school calls him AGGRESSIVE and the other school says he has SOC. ANX. Disorder. 
When I learned of this, I was like ZOLOFT? Um, don't you mean ZOLOFT, JR?
Are there any PHARMACY majors out there? What are the effects on this medicine for a 6 years old CHILD?
I say the child needs a school with a great MIX of students, but that's just me.
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Whoever diagnosed that poor child needs to be kicked square in the azz. The child does not need medication. Like you said, he needs to be in a different school.
Sometimes all it takes is a change in the environment to solve the problem. If I were a 6 year old in a place where no one else looks like me, I wouldn't say anything either.
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