"...that they hope will change the way educators and doctors diagnose kids and push psychiatric medication on them."
Wayyyy longgggg overdue.
Aside from the "mom's" $75k suite being too little??
She should demand some *scalps* in the form of Teaching Certificates & Medical Licenses.
...that'd make the buggers eyes water, alright.
GO MOM!! The whole issue of ADHD is a crock of equine dung! Please note my discretion here as I generally turn into a ranting nut-case on this subject. I will do my best to remain calm.
How a teacher is in the position of ordering any kind of drug therapy for a child is beyond my comprehension. Fact of the matter is that ADHD is diagnosed almost exclusivley in the US. I'm not wearing my tinfoil hat right now, but isn't that interesting?
Some studies have already shown that kids who were on Ritalin are prone to become cocaine addicts as the drugs are chemically related. So much for the War on Drugs, eh?
Once worked with a lady with two sons. They forced her to put her oldest son on Ritalin--yes, they can force you-- even turn you over to DCFS. When the school wanted her younger son on Ritalin--she took him to a neurologist. Testing showed that the kid could have suffered major neurological damage had he taken Ritalin.
Parents need to start fighting back and soon!--unless they too want to drug their kid into a state of pacificity. Most of the kids on Ritalin are little boys--most little boys are very active pains in the butt--that does not make them ABNORMAL. In fact, that makes them very NORMAL!
God Bless their hyperactive little souls and protect them from the morons of this bureaucracy!!