There are so many problems in schools and with teachers that one could write a book.
However, here are some of my observations, working with kids in a sleep lab.
Many children who are diagnosed (misdiagnosed) with ADD/ADHD have sleep apnea. Studies have been conducted showing that once sleep apnea is treated, either by tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy, or CPAP if they are old enough, those odd ADD/ADHD behaviors “disappear”.
Many children that come into the sleep lab who are uncontrollable by the parents are easily made cooperative by our sleep technicians. One would have to conclude that there is a deficiency, not in the child, but in the parenting if total strangers could get this child to behave long enough to have medical things done to him/her.
And isn’t the liberal mantra that we’re supposed to be accepting of differences? So instead of humiliating this child, why could not the other children in the classroom have been taught compassion, a little wisdom, and a few methods of dealing with this child’s disruptive behavior? What a chance to humanize a bunch of 5-year-olds!
There is so much more that could be said, but one is speechless in the face of such parental and teacher stupidity.
