Thank you. I have undiagnosed ADHD (I’m 74), my daughter and granddaughter diagnosed. Man, what a struggle, continuing three generations in our family.
Highly individual experience invited, I guess. School pretty successful for me, with lots of parental enabling: Mom typing last-minute assignments.... Even so, German Prof. in High school always looked at me kind of funny after he gave me an A first semester, then a legit D next, same seat, same room. Guess I was just thinking about something else. But mostly I rose to the occasion when "chips were down." (test-taking) But I was a very privileged child. Some have privilege over me now, if appropriately recognized and guided behavior-wise. I was just stuffed full of ersatz content.
A short addendum to the lengthy note I wrote in response to this article.
I once taught adult vocational education at a for-profit trade school. I am writing an extensive piece on my substack, not yet published. I can summarize it briefly.
If a school has to please investors and have exorbitantly paid administrators, student outcome takes a back seat to the bottom line. The instructors were paid about 2/3 of what public community colleges paid.
They recruited special needs students and did not provide special ed services.
There was far more wrong. The company I worked for was defunded. (These places suck hard on public education funding.)
I am amazed to see the industry of predatory "universities" growing. The marketing is aggressive and if you give them your contact info a "Councilor" will contact you. I saw one "counselor" after I left selling used Toyotas.
The Mango who Would be King is destroying public education. The motive is power. These "Institutes" will transfer control of education to the oligarchy. Knowledge will suffer. History will be altered.
Thank you. I have undiagnosed ADHD (I’m 74), my daughter and granddaughter diagnosed. Man, what a struggle, continuing three generations in our family.
I'm 72, no kids, but I come down on the side of, at least diagnosed is a good thing. Bless your family with a framework of consciousness to cope.
Highly individual experience invited, I guess. School pretty successful for me, with lots of parental enabling: Mom typing last-minute assignments.... Even so, German Prof. in High school always looked at me kind of funny after he gave me an A first semester, then a legit D next, same seat, same room. Guess I was just thinking about something else. But mostly I rose to the occasion when "chips were down." (test-taking) But I was a very privileged child. Some have privilege over me now, if appropriately recognized and guided behavior-wise. I was just stuffed full of ersatz content.
"Ersatz" wasn't right. Just, lots of traditional academic "content."
Random but intriguing to me - The Industrial Revolution emerged in England around 1860. The first mention of ADD in print was in 1879. 🤷🏼♀️
A short addendum to the lengthy note I wrote in response to this article.
I once taught adult vocational education at a for-profit trade school. I am writing an extensive piece on my substack, not yet published. I can summarize it briefly.
If a school has to please investors and have exorbitantly paid administrators, student outcome takes a back seat to the bottom line. The instructors were paid about 2/3 of what public community colleges paid.
They recruited special needs students and did not provide special ed services.
There was far more wrong. The company I worked for was defunded. (These places suck hard on public education funding.)
I am amazed to see the industry of predatory "universities" growing. The marketing is aggressive and if you give them your contact info a "Councilor" will contact you. I saw one "counselor" after I left selling used Toyotas.
The Mango who Would be King is destroying public education. The motive is power. These "Institutes" will transfer control of education to the oligarchy. Knowledge will suffer. History will be altered.