I just received this email-
Hi Charles,, How are you.I'm writing you to get some information on ADHD.
My grandson ?????? is in kindergarden this year.
My daughter told me today that she had a call today from his teacher.She told my daughter that she thought Riley had adhd.she says that he is a little hyper. Also he has difficulty in understanding his work.
I can't believe that she diagnosed him on these two facts.
Where does she get off diagnosing him on her own.I wonder where she got her medical licenses. Boy am I mad. The point is Charles I don't want him on drugs.
I truly believe what you believe in.We do not need to drug our kids.
I will suggests my daughter that she gets him checked by a doctor.
Now if he says that Riley has adhd is there any way to treat it other than drugs.
What is your advice on this issue. Thanks for listening...
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..PS.. ???? is sitting here in the living room watching cartoons.It's been
over an hour now and he hasn't moved.
He's totally concentrated on the T.V. He's not jumping around. Oh well go figure. PSS,, My daughter says he's the same way at home. Calm and collective most of the time.
TKS again
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Merci Boucoup
This is an email that was sent to me last year by the education department.
----- Original Message -----
From: "charles leblanc"
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 3:38 PM
Subject: CHARLES RECEIVES LETTER!!!!!
Dear Mr. Leblanc,
I am responding to your recent e-mail to Terry McInerney, on behalf of our Assistant Deputy Minister, English Educational Services Division, with whom you met some weeks ago.
I am also including a copy of the e-mail that was sent to superintendents and directors of education in the English public school system.
You may be interested in knowing that this is a reiteration of the message that I sent to the same group, including Student Services administrators approximately two years ago.
You have also requested results concerning the meeting held with the ADM and Pierre Dumas and other interested individuals.
It is important to note that the Expert Report on Behaviour Disorder was initiated
and conducted by the Department of Health, under the direction of Ms. Marcella Laaper, Director of Child and Adolescent Services.
Ms. Barb Whitenect is currently in that position.
In essence, given that this report was initiated and developed by the Department of Health and Wellness, any further action to be taken on this report must be
initiated by the Department of Health and Wellness.
Officials of the Department of Education who participated on that committee did so at the invitation of the committee chair from the Department of Health and Wellness.
You will note that I have also copied this e-mail directed to you to individuals within the Department of Health and Wellness who should be the primary
contacts for any further action concerning that report.
Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.
Robert E. Gerard
Student Services
(Phone: 506-444-4711
Fax: 506-457-7835
-E-mail:Robert.Gerard@gnb.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillips, Deanna (ED) On Behalf Of
McInerney, Terry (ED)
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:29 PM
To: (ED) Superintendents (Eng.)
Cc: (ED) Directors of Ed (Eng.)
Subject: Medications - Ritalin
Recent stories in the Telegraph Journal and other media have heightened the public's awareness of the drug Ritalin, a drug which is generally used to assist in the treatment of ADD/ADHD among children of school age and adults.
While educators have a definite role to play in the referral process for children who are displaying characteristics associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and in assisting the medical and psychological profession diagnoses of this
disorder, teachers are to refrain from suggesting to parents that prescription medication of any sort should be used in the management of students' behavior.
The diagnoses and prescription of medication for disorders that impact on a classroom's Positive Learning Environment remains the responsibility of the
medical profession.
Principals are asked to remind teachers that the Department of Education recognizes that teachers have an important role to play in the referral process.
Suggesting to parents that they may want to consider discussing their child's attention difficulties with their family doctor comes as a result of a
collaborative process involving the school-based student services team who have considered in- depth the child's strengths and needs.
Teachers are encouraged to share their observations with the school-based student services teams, and with physicians.
Teachers can also serve as an important source of information in the monitoring by the physician of appropriate dosage of medication.
Please share this information with principals, who will share with their staff.
5 comments:
Charlie:
I truly believe that the teachers today are the epitomy of lazyness!
If a kid is being a little hyper they are branded ADHD!
What a Crock! What do they want? A classroom full of morons? Slugs?
Slugs that sit there and absorb the bull that spews from the mouths of educators that are there for the sole reason of getting the summer off and 2 weeks at Xmas and a week at Easter?
Kids are Kids! No more! No less!
I bet if you ask them to seriously go back and remember their own childhoods there wouldn't be much difference.
If they can't stand the heat! Get out of the Kitchen!
Teaching is a CALLING! Not a Job!
It takes someone SPECIAL to be a teacher.
Let's be fair here, first, if you aren't a teacher then you have NO idea what it is like. Anybody who thinks kids are the same as they were even ten years ago has never set foot in a classroom.
Not all teachers can be painted with the same brush, some are good, some are bad.
However, in the above story we are getting it third hand, and stories have a way of getting changed around. Yet even from the letter we see that the teacher never said to put the kid on drugs, only that he may have ADD.
Here it becomes the parents responsibility to meet with the teacher and find out who is on the teaching 'health' team mentioned in the letter above. There is a very specific amount of testing which needs to be done before a diagnosis can even be reached. The child must be tested in a different environment, at a different time of the year and the process takes months.
This is THE PARENTS responsibility to look out for their child's welfare. If that grandparent is so concerned he can get off his ass and go and volunteer at the kindergarten, they always need all the help they can get. The mother needs to be informed specifically of what is happened, what kinds of acting out, what kinds of comprehension problems are evident. The parent NEEDS to be involved because there ARE bad and lazy teachers, but more to the point there are teachers who have as little understanding of ADD as most in the general public. Just to say 'all teachers are bad' or 'all teachers are lazy' is another way of saying that you have no idea what a teacher actually does.
Any parent who takes the word of a teacher and doctor at face value and gives in to drugging their child is not worthy to be a parent. If the child has no problems at home than that's a good clue that it isn't ADD,the disorder is NOT environment specific-you don't have it in one place, but then be OK in another.
However, watching cartoons is far different from school. Concentration problems are epidemic nowadays and can stem from everything from poor diet to genetic disorders. I think a good clue would simply be whether the kid can tie his shoe. I think learning to tie a shoe is ALL I learned in kindergarten
If Bernard Lord would do a study on this very emotional issue? This could help finding out why there's 48,000 kids on Ritalin in this Province? As for being a teacher? I wouldn't want the job but I do know one certain fact???? Once a child takes that first pill? He's labelled for the rest of his life. The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission made certain of this. Don't get me going because I have been very quiet writing stories of the Commission during these last few months.
That kid must haunt Bernie in his dreams. I hope he saw this picture at least.
12:03 just like a liberal would do and attack someone, well let's attack the fact that the liberals have no leader and that 3 other people want the leadership and that shawn won't call it, how come?
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