receive a kick-back of sorts from their local governments for every child that is diagnosed with ADHD as it is labeled a disability and requires added funding in order to accommodate the disabled child. As stated in Attention Deficit Disorders and/ Hyperactivity, This disorder must be treated biochemically, and resolved early in childhood. Otherwise, there is an increased rate of expulsion from schools, greater involvement in drug and alcohol abuse, higher motor vehicle accidents and greater tendency to crime. When these children reach their teenage years and begin to get into serious trouble then the question arises where did we go wrong as a society and a community. We need to look at the problem for what it really is. I saw a story on the television program 60 minutes about a month ago that talked about a kid who had grown to a teen with ADHD, they showed footage from his earlier years until the time of this report when he was 16 years old. This kid was totally out of control, he was recently expelled from a public school and his mother was fighting to get him re-instated. The school system resisted and told the mother she had to put the kid into a private school, and he was no longer welcome in their school system. She was noticeably upset with this decision, if this was not her child I am sure she would not have wanted a kid of his disposition around her children. The story leading to the expulsion was the kid threatened to kill other students and blow up the school. We were not far removed from the Columbine Massacres in a public school in Colorado. I have no doubt this tragedy played a part in this administration's decision to expel the student. What we have is an epidemic of many faces in this one situation, parents are afraid to send their children to what is supposed to be a safe place to learn school. Teachers and Administrators have to walk on eggshells with their respective teaching tactics, ...
