MP>JK>MP>Schools should not diagnose. They should teach.
MP>JK>Our schools aren't doing a decent job of either one these days,
MP>JK>according to what I see on TV.  We need to overhaul the entire school
MP>JK>system.
MP>On that, you'll get no argument from me.
I want the full amount that the taxpayers make available to the public
schools made available to each parent to take where they choose.  I saw
where one district spent around $9,000 a year on kids once, that was
just over twice what we were spending at the time on one of the better
private schools in Seattle!
The cost to the taxpayers might actually go down with good charter
schools competing with lousy public ones.
MP>High school students prefer marijuana. Ritalin does not give a good
MP>"high".
That is like saying since our first drug of choice in this nation ever
since the days when the Mayflower was on the high seas has been beverage
alcohol, we really don't have to worry very much about cocaine and
Heroin.
Which is stupid.
MP>JK>In very few cases.  The long term effects of that drug are just
MP>JK>beginning to be known to be very harmful.  I would not want any child
MP>JK>I know to be on it without the blessing of the neurologists
MP>JK>associated with the University of Washington.
MP>In most cases where MPH is used, the child does have a far more
MP>successful life than if it were not used.
Not is that child is being drugged at the behest of some school for what
is called "administrative convenience". Remember these are the bright
kids that get bored easily that the schools are having a problem with
these days, not the ones who sit quietly and don't complain.
 MP>As for the long term effects, could you cite them? Can you provide
 MP>supporting epidemiological studies to show that the "long term
 effects" MP>are not just someone's vivid imagination?
Have a friend named Richard Embom who is a certified drug and alcohol
counselor, has a degree in chemistry  of some kind, and can give you all
kinds of information on this drug when it is abused.  Want to write to
him?  Send me an email message where I can send back his address and you
can do just that.
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