Adhd Education, Public & Private Schools


by Rene Robinson - Date: 2010-08-22 - Word Count: 372 Share This!

In today's education system many disorders are handled by placing those affected by the disorder into specific classrooms that will cater more to their needs. The one area in which the education system gets a failing grade is in the handling of attention deficit disorder or ADHD. Children with ADHD have different educational needs than the average student and require more attention being paid to their needs by the teacher or aid.

Today we wouldn't put a child suffering from autism, a language or learning disorder into an advanced class schedule. They would be put into a situation where the student to teacher ratio was improved. Why is it that in our education system do we not give the same treatment to children with ADHD. Is this due to the symptoms of the disorder? The tendency to take the disciplinary route or the medication route in order to help that child allows the school to keep up a high ratio of students per teacher.

This has consequences across the board and demonstrates that there is a significant middle ground that we are missing in education of children where too many get left out or sidelined. Taking the easy route of an ADHD medication treatment or using excessive discipline doesn't work to create an adult who can perform and add to society. In most cases these routes to educating an ADHD child ends up having them addicted to other drugs or in prison, the ultimate in disciplinary education.

Our public education doesn't have the funds to run programs that can give a child with ADHD an educational experience that will keep them focused and teach them to maintain that focus through challenging or unchallenging tasks. We are too caught up in memorization aspect of our education system. A child who can't memorize or focus on memorization as their main learning tool will get left far behind and in most cases pushed to the brink of social acceptance.

The occurrence of medication treatment for ADHD in private schools is definitely lower then in public schools for a variety of reasons. A family who can send their child to a private school will also have the financial ability to give them private tutors, non-drug treatments and other supportive therapy.

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