tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post6721828347220841591..comments2024-02-24T19:49:45.687-05:00Comments on Schools Matter: The Meducation LettersJames Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04462754705431590571noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-47139385452134001382012-10-13T20:19:30.718-04:002012-10-13T20:19:30.718-04:00My older brother (DOB 1961) was on Ritalin for yea...My older brother (DOB 1961) was on Ritalin for years as a kid. He hated it. He had issues, sure, bot none that couldn't have been dealt with without the drug.<br /><br />He killed himself a few years ago. I am not conflating Ritalin with suicide. (http://stevensugerman.blogspot.com/)<br /><br />Or, maybe I am.RShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12477403865621507157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-26051094791724557382012-10-13T12:47:19.709-04:002012-10-13T12:47:19.709-04:00These unpublished letters are quite right. Howeve...These unpublished letters are quite right. However, I do find Dr. Anderson's comment quite interesting: “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.” <br /><br />I certainly don't agree with his "fix." <br /><br />It seems clear that as we comment away that we are missing the very real point. There is no morality or ethic that is not readily fitted to someone's "progressive" idea of the "good society." The "fix" is what the progressive yearns to achieve. <br /><br />But really don't we have to ask why we don't realize that these are socially valid actions performed by men and women who believe they are designing a society as they see fit? That no matter what perspective we wish to bring to it, it is the perspective of those in power, and in social management, that needs to be understood (or at least that we need to try to understand it). It seems to me that things are working out just fine. <br /><br />Acculturation to drug use is a very good thing for drug manufacturers as well as social managers who will use this as a conduit to create new "social management" drugs that all children should take. It's certainly "rational" if not quite humane. <br /><br />We are all the rats in the maze after all. It's just that most of us don't know it and many of us believe that there are ways to influence the social managers to be more humane, though I am not one of those.<br /><br />Now what? <br /><br />stormnemesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176778911355352751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14707730.post-52408588148176639752012-10-13T11:23:52.863-04:002012-10-13T11:23:52.863-04:00Odds are the kids who "benefit" from a s...Odds are the kids who "benefit" from a stimulant to stay awake and pay attention in class aren't getting enough sleep at night.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16523334580402022332noreply@blogger.com