Schools, the new drug pusher., page 2

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I understand your frustration. My daughter was in the same situation. It really worried me and by the school's recommendation i started taking her to a psychologist and neurologist who both suggested putting her on meds. then I thought to myself why all of a sudden the school is starting to make a big deal out of this. and you know what it is NOT my daughter's problem that they decided to hire a new grad for a 4th grade teacher. the teacher was young and very inexperienced. She could not control 30 students and her way of dealing with the problem was sending the "trouble makers" to the principles office for the rest of the day.
Because of this my daughter's grades started to fall down. Then I had had enough and told the principle that I will not have this nonsense anymore. Maybe it is the teacher's fault if she/he cannot get and hold the student's attention for 45 mins. Maybe it is the teacher's fault that he/she cannot explain the material in a way that the age group they are teaching understand and follows the lesson through. These are children and unless you can get their attention and hold it they WILL start talking and doing other things in class. IT IS NOT YOUR CHILDS FAULT. Please do not medicate your children unless it for a serious illness or a disease.
All these drugs are brain/mind altering medications. Your child's brain is still developing. You know what's funny is that in our times (i'm only 33 by the way) or even older generations ADHD or ADD only meant that your child was unruly and behaved badly. It still what it is. I don' understand why doctors feel the need to put a diagnosis to most simple things. Let your child have a short attention span... ALL children do. If their teacher cannot deal with that, then maybe she/he should thing twice about teaching younger kids.
sorry for the long post.

How long was she on each dosage before having it increased? I know for awhile the drugs actually increase hyperactivity but after awhile that lessens and the drug does what its supposed to.

I saw this documentary in my abnormal psych class about medicating children, which I remember was pretty interesting. It goes into the lives of 3 families I think and shows how each person did on ADHD drugs.
www.pbs.org...

[edit on 3-9-2008 by ghaleon12]

Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
The schools have become drug pushers. School nurses giving you everything from Ibuproferin to steroids. But the school should have no say in what your child takes, its your child. Schools getting entirely too involved in things they shouldnt be.

I would say all the push comes from teachers and higher ups, not nurses. Nurses generally are more aware of medication and their affects than doctors imo, you could say they are much more anti-medicine than Drs from my experience. They're much more into holistic health where Drs are generally more focused on the biomedical model, where the focus is heavy on treatment of disease (by whatever means nessicary). And nurses can only give out medicine that has been prescribed by a Dr. They can't even give out Tylenol without a parent note.

Sometimes local groups can help in aiding children with disabilities. A group in MN for example (www.pacer.org...) gives advice for parents and will also deal with the school in resolving an issue. They will actually sue schools for free if they feel kids aren't being treated well. When schools are threatened with a lawsuit, their ears perk up quite a bit. Otherwise, they can be very difficult. Not saying to do that, but groups like that can be very good at handling an overbearing school.

[edit on 4-9-2008 by ghaleon12]

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