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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a great article that smashes all these ADHD issues and rationalizations of red-shirting.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/youngest-kid-smartest-kid

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Well, the article also says "younger students benefit from having older peers" so not sure why everyone is freaking out.  [/quote]

Also that article suffers from huge leaps of logic.  It assumes (unwarrantedly) that redshirting is due to nothing more than a desire to game the system. I don't see the evidence for that at all.  It does not focus on kids who already have any developmental issues.  And it does not address the increased risk of ADHD diagnosis based on relative age, which has been found in many studies.  This is just more crappy science journalism.

More recent research shows that " a delayed school start dramatically reduces hyperactivity at ages 7 and 11, a measure with strong negative links to student achievement."

http://www.sole-jole.org/15074.pdf

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So, what you are arguing is ADHD is environmental, if it is as simple as delaying a child a school year vs. something medical.  Then, why are so many kids medicated, if it is as simple as holding them back from school a year?  (the bigger issue is teachers need more training and we need better teachers who can handle a range of issues)[/quote]

I agree with another parent that kids are just kids and it is the expectations of these kids that are cause of red-shirting, medicating, doing for them, and expecting perfect little classrooms.  The amount of over-inlvolved parents these days are thru the roof.  The stress for teachers to pass state mandated markers while trying to have 5% fun in the class and dealing with parents who complain about other kids ruining Larla's education.

Our parents just sent us to school and if the teacher had an issue, our parents were on it.  Our shit was in trouble.  There was consequences.  Now, we all have excuses.  No one just has a kid that is disruptive and actually gets punished for it.  It is why is he disruptive?  Lets get to the root of why he is disruptive.  Do not punish being disruptive.  Let's diagnose a reason and medicate because he is disruptive.  Lord have mercy!!  [/quote]

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