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| (...) Yeah, I'll second that. As someone who often got reports like "lots of ability, easily masters material, but we have problems keeping him on task" I consider that sort of report to be a compliment. (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My third grade teacher used to call me "motor-mouth." I took that as a sort of compliment too because it was never gossip but always instead a pure creative outlet. I was always talking with my friend Viss about some comic book or science (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Hmmm. My 2nd grade teacher wondered on my final report card, "shouldn't he be on medication?":-p And that was back before the wonder drug Ritalin ('68). -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Have Have the the drugs drugs taken taken effect effect yet? yet? (...) Hmm, some wonder drug. :-) This is interesting: (URL) the part about kids grinding up their Ritalin tablets into a powder and snorting it. If the facts there are straight, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Back in November, I got a chance to visit the results of 10 years of hard work by a bunch of teenagers whose parents didn't stop them from realizing their dream of digging tunnels. The result is a hand dug (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Common backgrounds huh?..:-) The above sentences are exactly same that my primary school teacher had always been saying again again to my parents whenever they meet. She wasn't aware that I was very good at (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It's very often the *teacher* who 'diagnoses' a child as ADD, ADHD, Hyperactive, etc. They'd rather have a class full of quiet, compliant children, than a class full of kids trying to live up to their potential. But the parents are foolish (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Ahh, so the teachers are simply getting annoyed because they can't keep the interest up? Yeah, better to install brainwave dampers on the "problem" kids than to give them something interesting to think about. :-) (...) Sigh. :-( (...) Yeah, I (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hmm.. Around here, my personal experience about hyperactive kids tends to suiggest that 90% of the time it's an allergy, usually to coloring agents. Now, I dunno how real life in the US is, but the imported stuff we get from over there is (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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