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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a ADHD kid on my son's baseball team and really, I admire his parents trying to get him involved, but he was a total distraction and constantly had to be told to do things like all the other kids were doing.

I don't know how ADHD kids perform in a classroom setting, but if what this kid did during practices and games translated directly to the classroom, then I'd imagine he was a total distraction also and required a lot of the teacher's time.[/quote]

The thing is some kids also just need to be challenged.A child that is bored might have low GBRS scores.   Bordom can lead to an ADHD diagnosis. I know for me (going back almost 40 years) probably would have had low gbrs...I was really bored in the second grade.  I knew how to do the work, and did not see the point in doing it over and over and over and over again....So the school system dealt with me by labeling me below average and holding me back....While it it is true that today, in FCPS, I would have been one year behind where I was (dec birthday), I am not stupid.  I now have a PhD n the physical sciences.

Now, if there had been a GBRS, and CogATs, and NNAT's I probably would have done very well on the tests, but had low GBRS.  WISC would have confirmed COGAT's/NNATS.

But, in 1971, there was no GT/AAP programs[/quote]

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