Reply #203: Actually, the ADD/ADHD commentary is on another of my

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websites:

"A Flea Hopping through the Pages of an Encyclopedia"
http://www.hyperfast.homestead.com/index.html

I have about 400 essays and articles spread across ten different websites. If you find my articles and commentary interesting, just go to the homepage of any of my sites to find links to all of the other sites.

On the Teacher, Teacher site I also have a piece called "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum," about the fact that teachers in the public schools are no longer allowed to assert suffficient authority to make the classroom an effective learning environment.
http://www.teacherblue.homestead.com/inmates.html

That essay grew out of the experiences I had when I did some substitute teaching in our local elementary schools a couple of years ago. I was horrified at how things had deteriorated since the time in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I regularly did volunteer teaching in my own kids' classes.

I admire those of you who can manage in the public school classroom these days. Your efforts are heroic, even though the society at large, policy-makers, and school administrators generally do everything they can to make your job impossible.

I will never teach in a public school again. I will stay at the college level, where I still have some control over what goes on in my classroom!