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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was surprised that Dalton didn't insist that Idris have testing done for ADHD.  Being a private school, they can put pressure on a family for this to happen.  And how is it that the school didn't notice or make it clear that Seun had dyslexia until 4th grade?  Don't they have learning specialists at elite private schools that would notice he isn't able to read and wonder why?[/quote]

They can put on the pressure, but they can't make the parents have their children tested. The father said mention was made of Idris having ADHD early on but he didn't agree. It was likely the school that made this suggestion.

I suspect he only acted in 10th grade because 1. They were desperate, nothing else had worked. And they were willing to try ANYTHING with junior--the college determining year--just around the corner. Ivy by any means necessary.  2. They heard about classmates whose grades improved once they took medication. Again, Ivy by any means necessary. And if medicine would get him the Ivy grades, let's do it!

In Seun's case, they may have noticed he was a struggling reader without knowing that dyslexia was the reason. Or who knows. Maybe they did tell the parents, but when you hear everything the school tells you from the perspective of an AA parent who expects the school to single out her baby...[/quote]

Both sets of parents are college educated with resources but seem so slow in acting when they could have addressed their sons diagnoses early on.  They even filmed their sons academic struggles, I don't understand why they didn't get it.  This wasn't just the teachers singling out their baby, their babies were demonstrating they were struggling on camera.

Why did the Brewsters just realize in 10th grade that ADHD meds help with focus and by extension grades?  They are at a competitive school, by 10th grade it's usually too late to move a C average to an A average.[/quote]

Clearly they were prideful and in denial.

I'm the AA whose son was the only black kid in the class at a similar elite all-white school. He also struggled academically early on. I saw it and addressed it early on. And I'm so glad I did. Today there is no sign the kid ever had academic issues (especially in the area of reading) and the few people I've told find it absolutely hard to believe.

I have no idea why they didn't get it. Or perhaps they thought they could work their children through it on their own and that it would get better as the kids got older. By HS (and certainly in grade 10) there's no denying it. Then again, my son was simply a struggling reader. He was dyslexic and ADHD was not an issue. So that could be the difference.[/quote]

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