I just thought about the precipitous rise in adhd and realize it’s because they are basically letting teachers diagnose kids because they dont have the skills or ability to do what teachers used to do—teach.
Now it’s not about math and reading because they have cried about standards and the ability to hold them accountable. In return they are now ushering all these transformers.
The same assholes who push Ritalin are now pushing trans.
Be careful with your absolutist language. Not all teachers, in fact I would argue the vast majority, think as you describe.
Many of us understand the root causes of these issues, but are powerless to affect change upon them. Teachers do not diagnose these conditions, doctors do with occasional anecdotes from the teachers regarding the observed behaviors and mannerisms of the children in question.
As always, these doctors get it entirely wrong. They think drugging kids is the solution to the ADHD epidemic. They are paid off by Big Pharma to push their drugs on society at all stages of life. Drugging children is very important to their agenda. If they can hook children on pharma drugs at an early age, they have customers for life.
ADHD is euphemistic language for dopamine withdrawal. It is another easily curable condition that doctors opt to prescribe medication for rather than deal with the root of the problem. Consider the that ADHD came into prominence during the 80s and 90s. Correlate the rise in ADHD with other societal trends, and you will find that high fructose corn syrup and caffeine became much more prevalent and widely accessed by our nation's youth during this time.
The condition known as ADHD is self inflicted and cyclically sustaining.
Children go to bed with high levels of caffeine and sugar in their blood.
Children get poor sleep, and are unable to enter REM sleep at all. This sleep is the most necessary for healing and especially development at such a young age.
Children wake up exhausted from the lack of sleep. What do they eat? Sugary cereal and caffeinated beverages. Even those children who eat at the school are subject to the school milk that contains more sugar per box than a bottle of soda pop.
Children arrive in the classroom and immediately begin experiencing one of two things.
4A. Earlier in the day, children who consumed high amounts of sugar and caffeine will be bouncing off the walls. They will be in possession of chaotic and unfocused energy. Adults who consume caffeine and sugar learn how to marginally manage that chaos and still be productive. Children do not have the skill sets necessary for that focus.
4B. Later in the day, children who consumed high amounts of sugar and caffeine will be experiencing the hard crash that occurs after the drugs have worn off. Without supplementing additional sugar and caffeine into their bodies, these children also might start feeling the first signs of withdrawal. They might get irritable, restless, and easily distracted. Some children might externalize this with aggression even.
So how do you, as a parent, break this cycle? The answer is diet. Eat like your grandparents ate. Take the "food pyramid" and flip it on its head and you'll have the right idea. Understand that simply carbohydrates break down into sugar in the body almost immediately upon being digested.
Keep your children away from high fructose corn syrup. HFCS is like the crack cocaine of sugar. It is in nearly all prepackaged foods that are intended for quick consumption. Even if your children are not drinking soda pop, they still might be consuming a comparable amount of HFCS from other hidden sources. Learn to read labels.
Keep your children away from caffeinated drinks. I believe caffeine should be treated like alcohol and nicotine. Children who are developing their brains have no business consuming such a powerful stimulant. It can do great damage to a child's sleep cycle, and sleep is extremely important for developing children.
Nearly all school aged mental conditions can be cured permanently through dietary changes. If I had a child with these focus issues, I would put them on a lazier form of the ketogenetic diet. I'd increase their protein and fat in their diet, and ensure they are getting adequate vitamins and minerals from fruits and salads. In my opinion, this would in all likelihood cure their mental issues up.
Reading and writing may be the responsibility of the classroom teachers, but diet is the prerogative of parents at the home.
You know the score. God Bless you, Teach.
Yeah not saying all teachers just assumed we could all understand that
I don't think the ADHD issue has anything to do with the gay/trans factions in schools.
I believe that ADHD is now so common that it cannot be called a disorder, any more than being left-handed is a disorder.
I will say that ritalin helped my son dramatically. His school performance went from abysmal to very good. He had lots of friends and was a happy kid. Not a zombie or anything. Then for his senior year he said he didn't want to take them any more. He was soon failing most of his classes, and we had to helicopter him through to drag him over the graduation line.
The education system is a filter. If you can't finish high school, you will have a tough time building a future. My son, now an adult is med-free and doing very well in a job well suited for somebody with attention-span problems. A job that he needed a high school diploma for.
I was not happy about the initial diagnosis and resisted for a while. But was convinced to go along evenutally. I'm glad I did. But I don't think the teachers were trying to do anything nefarious. They of course believed the kids were truly benefiting from it.
Totally different than grooming.
Your son could very well be the exception. I was as well.
OPs point is, in general, teachers who are qualified to handle a "rambunctious" child (whether highly intelligent, not cut from the cookie dough, or actually a miscreant) are rare. The System has been working to ensure they are rarer, outnumbered and outgunned. This is the slippery slope, infiltrate from within that is endemic to all of Their destructive plans.
Upvoted because well stated on your part, though I disagree.
P.s. Early introduction to Ritalin and other stimulants has proved effective in managing / suspending the blossoming of addictive behaviors in children who are genetically predisposed to The Disease. For this reason alone I'm for it. However, putting it into the hands of teachers and medical professionals (lol) is a dangerous game these days. As I hope we all know, these people are incentivized and motivated by reasons less than pure.
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The same teachers believe kids are benefiting from drag shows and sex changes. Just an observation
fuck adhd is shit and you did your child a dis service in drugging him. I think you should seek forgiveness from him for limiting his options and having him coded in school and coded in life. they pass all coded kids along to the next grade.
You can’t possibly lecture someone else on how to raise their kids.
My kid was diagnosed with ADHD before he was in school (it was very apparent, it’s not rocket science).
If he wasn’t medicated, I don’t think he could function in a normal school.
Yeah well they use to line the boys up for the nurse to get there meds. if you believe it is so prevalent now what do you think caused it? Gee they drugged a whole fucking generation of young boys and you think it's great! You should reexamine your past decisions using new eyes from these last two years. You and people like you made the bad fuckers a shit ton of money, all because you couldn't relate with your kid, and they got you believing you did the right thing.
Idk I’ve often thought about this. It could be the same thing that is causing the rise in autism (ADHD and autism are very much linked)…
Vaccines
No school I’ve ever been involved with has “lined kids up to medicate them”
My ADHD kid is doing much better now as he is an adolescent. He is not normal by any stretch, but he’s socially adjusted and had a breakthrough recently with his academic.
Please don’t lecture me on how to parent. You know nothing about me or my family.
Look, how can you trust anything a doctor tells you, you are willingly putting your kid on mind altering drugs, did you death vax your kid too? But you are right, I shouldn't say anything that might hurt your feelings.
Yeah, well my son is doing very well in life and I have no regrets.
Of course my comment was going to bring hostile responses. But we all don't have to agree on everything. I was sharing my personal experience as a datapoint.
Have a great weekend and 4th of July.
You would be wrong about the grooming. This falls directly in line with that philosophy. Grooming doesn't have to only include the perverted shite we see.
As a teacher this isn't all of us.. Kids today have zero accountability and alot lack any form of real parenting at home .
Maybe it's the rural Midwest where I work but fortunately most teachers are still in it for the right reason, to help children not groom or force their beliefs on them
Teacher here, the school system is a mess! I'm in a red state, there isn't any trans stuff really being pushed in any schools I've worked in. This last school year, a kid transferred to my school from another one. This little girl was only in Kindergarten, but came in one day and said she was a boy now and had a new name. This was not something the school pushed on her, it was from her mother. Parents are the root of many problems, but somehow teachers and schools keep getting blamed. I've seen my own brother's wife turn their son into a freak. His wife started putting dresses and nightgowns on him when he was a toddler! She hates men, is a huge feminist and basically is trying to turn their only son into a tranny! Going back to schools though, parents are to blame for so much! Parents have a lot more influence over their kids than teachers do. Its also hard to teach when you have a class full of disrespectful, sugar filled, angry, neglected kids that don't know how to be respectful or responsible.
Growing up. Had emotionally abusive parents. Step parent actively tried to start a fight. Wanted me to be in jail, openly talked about it.
I was taken to counseling, put on ADHD drugs. Even though they were the problem. This was a long time back. Yet, the pattern of abuse is clear. Parents and teachers abuse children in many ways. Like like Democrats, abusers always blame the victims.
The usual medication for ADHD is basically speed (Ritalin, Adderal) Once they start medicating there is no clear field to further evaluate. Seems like more classroom learning stimulation would overcome many such diagnosis; bored kids are sluggish kids and have reduced attention spans. My child was diagnosed in the first weeks of 1st grade based on the teacher's recommendation. No alternative treatment other than medication was recommended. IMO; the entire public school system needs a complete overhaul.
Part of the diseased puzzle yes. Good post.
and dumb parents going along with it.
Yes, that is true. They have no right to "push" anything except ABC and 2 + 2.
Y'all really want to know what's going on in our schools? Listen to this and then go back and listen to James Lindsay's other podcasts. This man has shined a YUUUUGE spotlight on what we're dealing with.
Yes, I know it's YT, but still...
https://youtu.be/p0Ptew6rKMM