ApolloSmileGirl posted:

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malkieD2 posted:

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harpuah posted:

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Wow... that was just a little ignorant... and rediculous..

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But his point is accurate - parents these days tend to look for a biological excuse for their misbehaving children, rather than attempt to 'parent' their children.

I think about half the kids with ADHD just have poor parents.

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I think ADHD is a copout in most cases, you tell kids that things aren't their fault for so long, and they start thinking that they don't need to try because they're special. Now, I know there are kids that generally have learning disabilities(they have to work twice as hard to succeed in academics, and many of them do), but it seems like it's become the popular thing for authorities to just say "aw, they have ADD or ADHD, let's just pump them full of drugs".

I don't neccesarily agree with corporal punishment, but if the parents aren't going to take charge at home(and I mean that as plain paying attention to their kids, as well as administering proper punishment), than somebody should.

True that there was always violence in urban schools(that nobody seemed to care about, even to some extent in modern times), but the current trend of taking a full out arsenal of weapons including automatic guns, assault rifles, bombs, etc., designed to take out as many people as possible, has gotten increasingly disturbing.

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