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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I REALLY disagree. That's catering to a child with ADHD, not helping them learn to be successful in the workplace. Barring jobs where pure, isolated genius compensates for everything else, nobody can escape some drudgery. If the only goal there is to assess the child's knowledge of the content -- find, then just giving them the 3 hardest question works. But that's FAR from setting them up to be a functional person."

Do you understand how much drudgery that ADHD student has to go through to learn all the material and answer the three hard questions compared to a student without ADHD?

They aren't a genius, they have to learn the material.  The student without ADHD can focus for an hour or two and do the home work or study for the test.  It takes the ADHD student much longer.

They are an expert at drudgery because everything they do has to be done through drudgery.  They can't do anything any other way.

You don't need a job that relies on genius, you just need a job that isn't under some type of time crunch all the time and to put in the time required for you to get the job done like any salaried employee would.[/quote]

Huh?  No. That does not describe the ADHD people I know.  The ADHD people I know do GREAT when they have time-crunches that require them to produce important things quickly.  They do terribly when they have to do drudgery-type things.  [/quote]

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