The brain chemistry altering controlled substances aren't necessarily the problem in my eyes. It's the lack of focus and individuality. School is a system tha

The brain chemistry altering controlled substances aren't necessarily the problem in my eyes. It's the lack of focus and individuality. School is a system that's supposed to help set people up for life as fellow citizens. If solution A doesn't work then one would hope that they would have the bandwidth to try solution B. It does feel like there's a lot of "hey that's weird, this one person isn't like everyone else, maybe we should try pumping some drugs into them" going on. Perhaps we could explore the problem space a bit before reaching that conclusion. Of course that sounds like it could take a lot of work and involve understanding the problems on an individual basis. Standard cocktail of drugs, however has an industrial, assembly line feel to it. Why figure anything out when we can just find a way to make the problem go away. Although, for those who really do need brain chemistry alterations to function, I'm glad we have something that we can actually do to help them. I just wish that the approach would be to actually assist the individual instead of only assisting the assembly line student output. It seems like I only hear about the later, but of course perhaps that makes sense because a story about the former doesn't have very good memetic fitness.