Someone above suggested looking at the correlation between LD problems and affluent school districts. That would be interesting. Why is it always one of my affluent, over-educated baby-boomer peers who’know’ that their child has ADD or some type of language delay or other assorted learning problem which causes their child to be, perish the thought, less than ‘highly gifted.’ The testing necessary to tease out many of these problems is upwards of $2500 and done privately. My inner-city neighbors-of-color are not going to private neurologists for these tests, but my fellow parents who want to get their kids into public school Gifted and Talented Programs and fast-track private nursery and grammar schools are.
There is a lot of good that has come out of the ability to diagnose and treat an array of learning problems, and hopefully with more articles by Jay Green and company, the evidence will be overwhelming and the conclusion will be widespread that a government-run, public school system is uniquely UNqualified to deal with anything other than teacher-pleaser type students who are able to function adequately within the mold that the public school system markets as being the only reliable education model possible.
