ADHD MY ASS

I want to let all that don't know this. Most school systems, thanks to cut backs - no child left behind - cruelity, have limited recess to once a day or less. Usually tagged into lunch time and always threaten to be taken away. How do we expect our children to sit in one place for 5 hours without losing attention. Some school systems have gone down to one 15 minute recess a week or none at all. I would love to see how many students have become "ADHD" listed in those school. We medicate our youth with pills and disapline. We are so afraid to let them be children anymore that we lock them up and make them lose imagination.
I remember when I was a kid we had 3 recesses a day. Two for 15 minutes and one for 30 to 45 minutes and sometimes an hour! We started school at 6:45 in the morning and didn't get out until 3:30...Now you are lucking to see a start time earlier then 8:30 and end time later then 2:30. I am assuming by cutting the time out they are saving money and doing away with things that make school good. You know Like ART, MUSIC, RECESS! Anything that gives children expression and emotion...Letting them out of the the box! Letting them live out their dreams. I have noticed that we have not cut PE or Sports in school. In fact they have made that bigger in the school. Two items that keep children in that box and working as a group...unless your the overweight and can't keep up.
Many school systems also don't have field trip and days where they have a subject for the day. Like on pioneer day have the children live as pioneers. Taking them outside and letting them live and learn like pioneer children, but as I found out when I was trying to become a teacher...there isn't room for that. They have to stay with the STANDARDS and can't do the fun things. You know on the days we did different things like that I learned more then I ever did sitting in that chair day after day. I have also heard that most of the HONOR's students get that type of extra stuff. What happen to letting all children have it! Even the special education kids that need it more then all the rest.
I subsituted in this one school and there wasn't any recess or time for anything extra. The kids were so disruptive that it made it impossible to teach. The other teachers were having the same problem because I asked. One teacher said, "There isn't anything you can take away anymore to make them behave! They have taken away music, art and recess. The principal says they would get in trouble for taking away PE from them. They are left with nothing so the children can do anything they want. I feel the STANDARDS have ruin teaching. I am thinking about quiting!" These are the words of a teacher that taught for 35 years at the same school. This is getting sad!
Fight for your child to have more recess, art and music. Fight for them to take class trips and days they go outside in the fresh air and learn. Fight for your child not to be falsely labeled ADHD! Fight for longer school days and higher pay for GOOD TEACHERS and LESS for BAD ONES. Let me know what you think! Thanks!