doctor disease redux

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Thu May 24 11:40:01 PDT 2001


Peter Kosenko wrote:
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> I began to wonder about the study of children who have been in daycare
> that indicated that they tended to exhibit more minor "behavior problems" than other children. Now there might be a quite obvious explanation for that. As a result of going to daycare and not staying home entirely with their mothers, the kids may have already been socially smarter than other kids and thus a little more inclined to "test limits." Some "misbehavior" can often be a sign of intelligence.

I suspect they would have drugged Einstein into a stupor. So often, as in nursing homes, the drugs are for the benefit of the staff.

It doesn't always take much intelligence to do what you're told. But it does take some intelligence to figure out what people are expecting and to violate those expectations in a way that doesn't get one into a LOT of trouble. None of the journalists that I read seemed to make that argument. Perhaps they never raised kids.

Yes and how many children who are potential lefties are getting drugged into submission. This conformity that is required in schools these days is very very dangerous. With standardized testing, the teachers are often focused on getting the best test scores for the whole school and tend to want to edge out children who do not sit quietly (especially boys). This just happened to my chiropractor. The teacher told her that she thought her son who is about seven needed drugs so he would sit and listen. Teachers are not supposed to make a diagnosis, however, that is for the $1200 psychologist that the school recommended that Dr. Rose take her son to be evaluated by. Fortunately, Dr. Rose is not one to be led around by the nose and thinks her son has problems with his teacher. He is bored (makes good grades) so she is going to request another teacher rather than put him on Ritalin. If this is one instance, I know of, there must be many more.


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> If you don't want to beat them, you have to outsmart them.

There is the ticket.


> Eventually she got over the behavior, of course.

Most do.

Marta



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