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ADHD is not a disease. Expecting children to pay attention to boring adults is. A good portion of teachers are incredibly unanimated and boring. They should not
by anon291 4y ago
ADHD is not a disease. Expecting children to pay attention to boring adults is. A good portion of teachers are incredibly unanimated and boring. They should not be teaching ADHD kids.
Look, my mother has ADHD (or something like it), and she had no problem teaching the (mostly boys) in her class with ADHD. A few even went off their meds in her class. Unfortunately, the next year, they were put right back on with a new teacher.
- thescriptkiddie 4y agoADHD (and associated things like autism) is not just a problem for children in school, but also for adults at work and in their personal lives. I would argue that society should be changed to better accommodate neurodivergent people, but until then medication is really helpful for most people.
- galoisgirl 4y agoADHD is when you have trouble paying attention to most teachers, not just the boring ones. Happy for the kids, but when they're adults, they'll find out that they have many other executive functions impaired, not just attention management, and the cool teacher won't fix these.
- anon291 4y agoMy mother is not a cool teacher -- at all. We shouldn't conflate interesting and engaging with 'cool'.