This article " Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School" is about how kids are prescribed pills for no reason . For Example "Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder "made up" and "an excuse" to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children's true problem-poor academic performance in inadequate schools" This means that kids are given Adderall just to see if their behavior will improve. It also says that Dr. Anderson: prescribed Adderall for Alexis 12,Ethan 9, Risperdal for Quintn,Perry,both 11,and Clonidine for all four , taken nightly. "Quintn began taking Adderall for A.D.H.D about 5 years ago , when his disruptive school behavior led to calls home and in-school suspensions." This means that before he started to take the pills for his behavior he was very wild,rambunctious.. Another example is when it states "When puberty began at about 10, though, Quintn got into fights at school because, he said, other children were insulting his mother. This just says that Quintn felt as that the kids shouldn't have talked about his mother and that it was getting on his nerves and that was the last string.."Despite Quintn's experience with Adderall, the Rocaforts decided to use it with their 12-year-old daughter,Alexis, and 9-year-old son Ethan.These children don't have A.D.H.D., their parents said. This means that just because one bad experience doesn't means that it might be a bad experience for these children.
You've done some good work summarizing and including details from the article, but you don't have enough of your own opinions and commentary. See parts 3 and 4 of the blog post format for examples of what I am looking for. It seems like these parents do have reasons for giving their children these medications--why exactly do you disagree? 65
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