May 2014
I had the chance to listen in
between a teacher and parent
The teacher told the mother "Dear
your son needs help, that's apparent"
She suggested that the mother
visit a doctor that she knew
One who'd give him medication
to control the fits that he threw
His teacher had diagnosed him
with that Attention Deficit
He didn't conform to her rules
to be quiet and just to sit
He was no different from those
that all of us knew growing up
Acting unruly like a dog
who doesn't know he's still a pup
But now we claim this is disease
though that seems but only a ploy
To make a common worker bee
of what once was a little boy
Time out is what we do to them
when our children all misbehave
It has about the same effect
as master becoming the slave
A child who won't sit still in school
is no more or less of a joy
In my day they were not called sick
what they said was "he's just a boy"
Tate
between a teacher and parent
The teacher told the mother "Dear
your son needs help, that's apparent"
She suggested that the mother
visit a doctor that she knew
One who'd give him medication
to control the fits that he threw
His teacher had diagnosed him
with that Attention Deficit
He didn't conform to her rules
to be quiet and just to sit
He was no different from those
that all of us knew growing up
Acting unruly like a dog
who doesn't know he's still a pup
But now we claim this is disease
though that seems but only a ploy
To make a common worker bee
of what once was a little boy
Time out is what we do to them
when our children all misbehave
It has about the same effect
as master becoming the slave
A child who won't sit still in school
is no more or less of a joy
In my day they were not called sick
what they said was "he's just a boy"
Tate
Some of the parents who listened to doctor Spock in the 60s and 70s.Those who tried the kinder gentler approach to raising little Henry. Are now held hostage by their unruly children. So thank you doctor Spock for everything you didn't do. And for all the answers you professed to have but really never knew. Now the public schools want to discontinue the teaching of cursive writing and spelling . As they see it why do we need them anymore? However they also told us we didn't need the phonics that they discontinued back when children could read? The schools got one thing right. Why try to teach children to write if they can't even read? I would truly be interested in knowing just how many parents have been told by teachers that their children need medication. So if this is the case I would like to take a poll. Tell us all how many of you there truly are. Is this just a way to manage overflowing classrooms? When was it we gave teachers the right to diagnose medical problems? In years gone by we would have thought that an affront. It is truly out of their expertise. But I hear over and over that that teachers recommend certain doctors to make sure the children are medicated. If this is not the case tell me. I could be wrong . However it seems it would be more productive to fix the broken schools. Instead of saying the children are broken.
