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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if he had been allowed to be an average college-bound student in Gen Ed classes?

A lot of super bright kids *could* be in every high-level class, they could master the material but an entire schedule of highest-level classes is impossible --- due to their condition. It just is.[/quote]

You're assuming that the super bright kid is going to be capable of being successfully averagely college bound if in general ed classes. That's not a reasonable assumption. Even the work load required in regular classes is challenging for a super bright kid with executive function problems and inability to focus attention. It doesn't matter if the kid would understand the material if the kid can't actually get the material read. It doesn't matter if the work is brilliant if the kid can't manage to get the work completed, or turned in. It doesn't matter if the kid's a wonderful kid, if the impulsiveness, lack of ability to plan, and difficulty following conversational flow trash friendship after friendship.

The "extra" intellect a super bright kid has that isn't being used in gen-ed classes (which I think is a questionable assumption, but let's go with it) doesn't mean it gets to be used for the kid's deficits. Deficits are deficits. Sometimes they can be masked by exceptional abilities in other areas. Sometimes they can't.

And, what if my kid's an average kid, for whom gen-ed courses would be right on target. Should the average, ADHD kid take special ed classes, in order to avoid being medicated? (Assuming that a kid not being medicated can work well at a level "below" his natural level, which is a ridiculous assumption and displays a complete ignorance of ADHD.)[/quote]

NP.   Do you think stimulants permanently affected your child?

Not sure, weight and height most likely, but time will tell.

I do know this for sure--my pretty bright kid could barely get through the classroom day as a 1st GRADER (and an Oct. birthday, so on the old side), due to his lack of impulse control.    
Many calls from the school...he was on a path of ostracizing from peers and a loss of self worth.

Stimulants, complementing everything else we were doing, were necessary.

These are very tough personal decisions that parents and providers make.[/quote]

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