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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IDK; this sounds more like anxiety to me.[/quote]

What? This doesn’t sound like anxiety at all. It could be ADD, but I’m pretty convinced you could get 90% of 10 year old boys diagnosed with ADD/ADHD if you really tried.

This sounds like a nice, bright, well rounded kid just having brain farts when it comes to organizational skills. It wasn’t long ago when it was commonplace for grown, highly successful men to have full time secretaries to help organize and run their daily lives. CEOs still rely on executive assistants to run their daily lives. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, or that it should continue, but we need to realize that boys and men just struggle with this. And it doesn’t mean they’re not smart or capable.

I don’t want to be provocative, but [b]school in the 2020s is about sitting quietly and regurgitating in the format and style that the teacher wants. [/b]That’s not going to work for a lot of boys. I’m not defending that, but it’s the reality. I don’t know whether that’s a good or bad thing, but fewer and fewer boys are going to graduate high school and go to college unless something changes. [/quote]

Are you saying school was not like this 100 years ago? [/quote]

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