Those With ADHD Are the new race "Aquarian Children"?, page 20

I helped Mr Swanson out with his class to make the team, i went up to the chalkboard, wrote down a problem 3 lessons ahead of what the class had learned at that point and gave him the chalk, and whispered to him "tell them it figure out how to do the problem them self's and sit down at ya desk don't give them the answer or tell them the steps to solve it" He did exactly that, and the class started to figure things out for them self's asking each other questions but most importantly learning how to solve math and other problems on there own.

I knew all he wanted his students to do was TRY learn what he was teaching. For me, he never expected me to do any of the out of class work and only graded me on my tests. I ended up on the varsity hockey that year, helped my social status a bit, tho i really wasn't into it much by the end of the season.

(9th thur Graduation)
Well my math teacher and I became friends thur out the year and i had talked to him about the special education classes i was put in, having a IEP . These classes were small like 5-8 students and very easy work, many of the kids in these classes had adhd, depression, and compounded behavioral disorders, a few just seemed like they had adhd and didn't care about school at all. being put in that setting more or less pissed me off because the school work was needless to say dumbed down so the kids could pass the class.

But the few just plain add/adhd kids in the classes they were forced to take me included. Ended up not only, acting out against the faculty or just plain not caring at all ie. sleeping thur the class or doing whatever they felt like as part of rebelling against the system they were put in. These types of classes some schools put together hurt the student more than they help, i do admit some need the structure but for alot of adhd kids fitting in is something they want more than anything in the world, kinda hard to do that with a special ed teacher siting right next to you in half your classes and the rest of your classmates looking at you as if something was wrong with ya even tho there job is to try to keep you focused on something your bored with.

Well my friend Mr Swanson , he would actually listen to what i was telling him which was rare in my world most adults i encountered wouldn't take the time. I admit i was hyper from time to time even with medication most of it didn't work or the dosage was wrong during my school years but he took the time to sort out what msg i was trying to get across and had an idea for me to get out of the special ed situation.He ended up going to the deen of students on my behalf, to get me enrolled in post secondary at the state university so i would count towards high school as well as college credits for all but six classes i had to take at the school which the state would pay for.

That was prob the single best thing anyone outside of my family anyone has done for me.

From then on i was able to take the classes i wanted to learn things about, stuff that interested me. Computers, astronomy, history was the bulk of my credits. I only had to come back to the high school for english and creative writing to graduate. 3 years college credit w/ a 3.4 gpa ( i didnt do so well in english related classes C's and D's) But i excelled greatly in computer sciences everything from programing to hardware you name it i could do it. How? Because i liked what i was learning and i had a choice rather than be bothered with information I didn't want to learn at that time. That is just my background during school years. Im not going to tell yall my whole life story but i turned out to be a great success , when many of my teachers said id fail at life well ecp for one. Many many many add/adhd kids are wired like this. I hate to see this society bring these people down like there something wrong with them. I had my Iq tested b4 my that year @ 142 but being in special ed classes and having teacher aids follow me around made me feel dumb