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This is anecdotal but it feels like undiagnosed ADHD is much more prevalent than we as society realize.

That is the perception, yes, however it's usually not that.

I have background in education, but not in regular schools.

I was the math and critical thinking lead at a supplementary learning center where we adapted to each student as an individual in whatever ways we could find that were effective.

We had many parents bring students to us. A number of them said their kids were suspected of having ADHD by the public school staff.

95% of the time, it was a misdiagnosis.

In most cases, once we established each child's neurological profile and used that profile to work with the child, the child's performance was excellent.

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HoloKat 3mo ago

That doesn’t really mean they don’t have ADHD… you’re just compensating with a forgiving environment. Ie tailoring your methods to minimize the appearance of ADHD behavior

RedTailHawk 3mo ago

Or the school system, as structured, is tragically inept and the way we were handling each student was appropriate. I mean…how else should people be treated? As serial numbers or as unique humans?

HoloKat 3mo ago

Or maybe it has nothing to do with the education system because it’s only an environment that highlights an underlying condition and not a cause of said condition and it is in fact a bias against the public education system that causes you to say this (not wrongfully so because by definition one system cannot be best for everyone, but does not invalidate a condition…)

RedTailHawk 3mo ago

Oh most definitely. I am biased against the public/government school system. It’s based on an antiquated Prussian model designed to be an NPC factory.

It’s not designed to produce quality graduates. Teachers are in unions. That ruins meritocratic practices and crappy teachers get to keep teaching.

Student to teacher ratios are way too high. My students won awards at national math and critical thinking test competitions in increasing quality and quantity each year. My students’ test averages beat both national and international averages by increasing margins every year. Proof is in the results.

hasky 3mo ago

Teacher should keep their their mouth shut , keep teaching and don’t try to be a doctor !