Quote Originally Posted by rocco View Post
growing up i suffered from "adhd" [i hate that expression! were not attention seekers at all! its the chemical unballance that turned you into a werewolf!]
I think you have misunderstood the term: "attention deficit" doesn't mean you are an attention seeker, it means your attention shifts easily and it's hard to concentrate. Punishing such children for being restless is as unfair as punishing a dyslexic for not reading.
anyway. i was slippered for throwing a stone at someone, did i deserve it? yes!
i had no right to throw something that could of caused damage to another.
Every child needs to be taught that, but physical punishment doesn't teach them it's wrong to hurt people, only that you have to be grown up before you're allowed to hurt people.
as i got older i matured [albiet slowly] but realised that the word discipline comes from the word diciple. [to teach]
The question is, what does it teach?
i think political correctness has gone way to far and thats why kids get away with so much.
they dont understand "respect" or "manners" but as bipola said when i sat in a lesson where the teacher made the lesson come alive, i behaved.
when i sat in a class that lost me then my concentration wondered causing me to become disruptive!
p.c. do gooders should be buried up to their heads as the tide comes in
I would love to know what is in your mind when you say "do gooders". Presumably, not teachers who make lessons come alive, or people who make life easier for victims of such problems as ADDH. What have "do gooders" done to you? Or are you just quoting some tabloid?