Why those who grew up in the Old Days are uneducated and lacking moral values!

Parents Forum
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<p>We didn’t use Ritalin.</p>

<p>We didn’t have standardized tests that determined whether or not we graduated.</p>

<p>We didn’t have to do homework for our classes before the school year actually started.</p>

<p>We didn’t have soccer practice, karate practice, AND band practice to keep us off the streets.</p>

<p>We didn’t skip lunch so we could squeeze in YET ANOTHER AP class.</p>

<p>We didn’t sue our school for $2.7 million, because we were too uneducated to see the injustice of SHARING the honor of valedictorian with one equally high-achieving classmate.</p>

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<p>OK, OK, I realize that there are a few out there who really do need Ritalin. But I’ve been hearing horror stories about widespread abuse of it. THAT’S what I’m against. To think that 30% of students on any given day need Ritalin is like thinking 30% of students on any given day need crutches.</p>

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<p>Adderall is becoming pretty widespread throughout college students now too.</p>

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<p>Nah, we just stayed home and watched Gilligans Island, Three’s Company, The Partridge Family, I dream of Jeannie, Bewitched and more!</p>

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<p>don’t forget my mother the car, Love Boat, Love American Style, the Monkees, where the Action is, Dark Shadows, and my favorite the Flintstones.
I might have graduated high school if I had had Ritalin. My doctor recently prescribed me Adderall, but I don’t remember to take it and I let the prescriptionn lapse :(</p>

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<p>Yeah, those were the good old days. Rapped on the knuckles with a ruler. Having learning disabled first graders put into a playpen in the classroom as a management technique. Sent to the ‘Dumb’ class for first grade because you went to kindergarten at the public school. Misbehaving high school boys hung out of the third floor window by their ankles by an angry teacher.</p>

<p>A barrel of laughs. Any more whinging?</p>

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<p>cheers, I grew up in the 1980s, not the 1800s.</p>

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<p>In the mid 1980s corporal punishment was banned in schools in only 5 states.
Now it is banned in about half.</p>

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<p>“We didn’t have standardized tests that determined whether or not we graduated.”</p>

<p>I graduated from high school in VA in 1981…and actually we DID have what they called the state “Competency” tests which where standardized and required for graduation. </p>

<p>But I was shocked by the news reports on students who are either buying from other students, or going to get prescriptions for Adderall. There was a student profile that is taking the stimulant so he can do things like read an entire novel and write the paper in one evening.</p>

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<p>I am dumb…what is Adderall?</p>

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<p>Adderall is an ADD drug, amphetamine. I too am concerned about the high diagnosis rate for ADD. Two of my teenagers were just diagnosed this year with ADD and as well as I know them, I have my doubts–I see some signs of ADD in each of them, but we all display those from time to time. But they both now marvel at improvements in focus and concentration. The shrinks say if you really are ADD, the medicines help you focus and if you are not ADD, they just make you hyper. Hope so.</p>

<p>Regarding the original poster’s comments, I remember at my small rural elementary school where the “bad” kids were seated in the back of the classroom so they wouldn’t distract the rest of us. And the African American kids were automatically in the special ed class (even though several of them did well in hs and later went to college!) I think we have made advances in recognizing different learning styles and individual’s obstacles to learning. But then again, the marketplace demands it.</p>