Children are not convenient.
Children are not alway easy to deal with.
Children are not machines to be turned on and off when it suits parents and teachers.
Children are smarter than you think and less rational than you can imagine.
I'm with you there. I'm sure there are one or two kids somewhere that really need Ritalin, but if you go by the usual symptoms of ADHD, just about every single kid has it!
Go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-Deficit_Disorder#Diagnosisand tell me that doesn't describe every kid you know.
Heck, I must have had it. After all, I accidentally shot my third grade teacher with a crossbow made from a large hairpin, a mechanical pencil and string pulled out of my sock. Maybe I still have it…
I'm a firm believer in the Bill Cosby school of child psychology:
"All children have brain damage."
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