-=> Quoting Moonshadow to Jacky Grandy <=-
 Mo> On 04 Mar 97  16:20:34, Jacky Grandy said the following to All:
 
 JG> hi all parents,friends, and those with add or adhd. My name is jacky
 JG> grandy and i have been indenified for over 10 years as adhd. I am 16
 JG> years old and have a grade point avarage of 3.1. I am also classified as
 JG> being a gifted student for the past 10 years. growing up with this
 JG> disordered and living with it i have learned a lot and i feel as a
 JG> person who lives with it and still goes to school everyday and has
 JG> problems i can maybe help someone out there. I have research the
 JG> subject of adhd and add for years and my first hand experience and how
 JG> i keep myself together and methods i used maybe can help you or
 JG> someone... so i just want to say hey i am here
 JG> 
 Mo> 
 Mo> Hello Jacky! Glad your here! I can take all the advice you can
 Mo> offer. I  have a 10yo daughter who is ADD/ADHD and I can't get her
 Mo> teachers to help her  at all. In fact they tell her to lay her head on
 Mo> the desk and just rest, they  don't care if she does anything. They
 Mo> have already told her she has flunked  fourth grade. What kind of
 Mo> advice can you give me and what kind of words of  encouragement can I
 Mo> give her?  Thanks for your time!  :) 
 Mo> ***Sheree***
 I see alot of people are having trouble again.  I am going to post an
 educational fact from C.H.A.D.D.  It may give you something to stand on.
 I hope it helps.   Please note this is for the U.S and if any of you live
 in Canada I believe they have a chapter their also.  The message is from
 me and the subject is Educational Laws.  As the law states Discriminatory
 actions because of a child's disability (ADD/ADHD being one of them) is
 AGAINST THE LAW.  And it is up to the school to find out why she is flunking
 and to try to correct it if it is caused by the child's disability.
 Remarks such as the one the Teacher made can harm a childs motivation to
 try at all.  I would bring this up to the principal and if that does not
 work bring it up to the Superintendent of the school district.  Try to do
 it in writing, receipt requested.  If all else fails find a parent advocate
 or take the child to a Psychrist and show the school what harm this teacher
 is doing.  This could give you a better leg to stand on (legally of course).
 A child not doing their homework or having a lack of motivation is not 
lways
 the child's fault.  It could also be due to the schools attitude toward the
 child.  A teacher once said this to my child and in my case it really didn't
 matter because I had already decided to homeschool.  My child just laughed
 to himself.  If this were not the case my child would have been devastated
 as he had emotional problems caused from the school enviornment.
 Regina
... "Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again." - L. Long
 Please note the above tagline.  The squeeky wheel gets the grease.  Open 
our
 mouth and use any and all resources to get your child what is righfully
 theirs............An education.
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