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Reply to "Why are so many UMC kids "gifted but learning disabled"?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be ADHD if I were raised as a kid today. The pressures kids have to sit still and focus for hours on end each day at younger and younger ages is truly ridiculous. I had 3 recesses until I was 9 years old. My kid has ONE for less than 30 minutes. I have more of a recess in my current job than he gets at school! No human can focus like that for hours without medication. [/quote] This is an interesting observation. One of the reasons we are looking at private, alternative schooling (not a pressure-cooker elite private) is because it seems like schooling is increasingly at odds with normal child development. I did attend an elite private (not in DC), and I did not get HW until 2nd grade. And that too was 1 page a week that was only "graded" on whether you turned it in.[/quote]
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