Annie's Mailbox®, July 18
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: My wife and I married 15 years ago. She has one son, "Evan." Three months after our wedding, Evan's wife divorced him. She'd been supporting him for 12 years while he drank and cheated on her. This is when he started mooching off of us.
Evan lost his license due to six DWIs. He drank himself out of his job and was headed for Skid Row, so I let him live with us. I hired a lawyer for him and, when he stopped drinking and driving, bought him a pickup. Altogether it c ...
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Posted by: Selina
Comment: #1
Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:48 PM
I too have a problem with our Educators today. My son was born at 30 weeks, and because of that he was place on oxygen till he was 9 months old. To make a longer story shorter he has delays. I always knew he was a hyper child. At the age of two I was asking everyone and anyone for help and advise on what I could do. I sent him to school at the age of three. where they worked hard with him for two years. To much dismay he is still very much delayed, and he gets very upset about this. He has left the learning circle quite a bit durning the half days he's there. I had him tested many times for ADHD, and yes he has it, but the meds they put him on made him groggy, and would sleep 14 hrs a day. I refused to give it to him because how it made him feel. The school insist I give him these meds, and if I don't and he has a temper tantrum I need to be on call to come pick him up. I agree he needs meds for attention, but what they had him on is for aggression, and they give it to people coming off of heroin. If myself and my family or babysitters can handle him why can't the school? Right now he away at a camp for the impaired and the dr the school sent him to just happens to be the dr for his camp well what do you know he too says the school is over exaggerating his behaviors. What am I to do
In the U.P.
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Posted by: sarah stravinska
Comment: #2
Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:09 AM
RE education today. It isn't only today. Back in the 50's my high school literature teacher got angry with me for quietly studying the Iliad in class. I had finished our assignment, so rather than do nothing I worked on my personal literary project. You would think a true educator would be thrilled to find a kid studying the classics on her own, but she evidently felt threatened. I was sent to the principal who could hardly keep a straight face while I raged at this teacher's attitude. He, too, suggested that I might want to "dumb down" to get along.
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Posted by: Mercedes Carter
Comment: #3
Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:35 PM
I have ADHD. When I was a kid, was put on meds but they didn't work as well. I'm smart but struggled. I had to take a small program and a goal to get me to to my homework. When I met that goal, I was happy. I did it again in middle school. In high school(I'm still in high school) I start to slack off. But, I decided to set goal again and nearly made it. What people want to do is show these kids that if they don't set goal but slack off, they'll achive. Give them a goal to achive and make it a conciquence if they don't. Eventually, they (the kids) will see that it takes hard work to achive. Don't make educators work harder than the kids. If that's the case, then, the parents should be the educators and see how hard it is.
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