Problem : Deranged teenager kills schoolchildren in Connecticut, as principal waits helplessly for someone with a gun to come save her and the children.
Conservative solution : Train the principal to use a semi-automatic rifle with a 40 round mag in her closet. One dead deranged teenager, lots of happy families opening Christmas presents in Connecticut. No propaganda value for people trying to destroy the US.
Progressive solution : Obama and Bloomberg work tirelessly to get hunters’ guns confiscated in the western US. Accomplishes nothing productive and doesn’t save any children – but victims are great for propaganda against the Bill of Rights.
Funny how it is whenever they talk about school violence, shootings in particular, they always seem to leave off the fact that shootings at schools have been occuring since before the US was actually a country. I believe the first one was in 1764…
http://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-united-states
They also leave off the fact that often the kid has been force fed drugs by the school.
(wwwDOT)totalityofbeing.com/FramelessPages/Articles/violence.html
OOOoooooh, interesting, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International website has scrubbed the article…. Guess the UN didn’t approve. {:>D
Here are the listed side effects for the drug:
Ritalin Side effects
And schools are shoveling this crap down the throats of kids and prosecuting parents that object???
Death from Ritalin
Yeah, when you look at that James Holmes guy and his goggle eyes staring into space, no way was he straight. That dude was drugged out on something, that’s for sure!
… might be the absence of ‘recess’ periods, giving the kids a chance to burn off excess energy by running around …
/only partial sarc
Disliked by the lefty teachers (though self admitted soft-left politically himself [newpaper article many years ago so no refs.]) Edward de Bono has shown that by understanding the children that are being taught, by analysing their mental capacity, cognitive skill, etc., and their PERSONAL DIFFICULTIES then students could perform much better by application of simple rules.
He has shown that children and teenagers require structured daily routines with a correct pattern of sleep and exercise daily, and a correct nutritional intake. And these routines form a responsible agreement between the class, the teachers, and the students. He’s shown the positive effects of giving children responsiblities as they wish to gain rights.
He does not believe in medicating students, in fact he is very against drugs in general.
He’s critical of most state applied modern education structures and methods. IMO he’s an enlightened eductionalist but he has many fierce critics.
He written many books, he’s the fractured Wiki –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono
Agreed.
Now the kids are chauffeured from home to school and do not even have a 1/2 mile walk to take the edge off in the mornings. Plus the kids get candied cereal for breakfast instead of eggs, bacon and millk. And you now find candy and soda machines in the schools to go with the high starch/carb lunch.
No exercise plus a sugar high plus bored out of their skulls by common core pap and they blame ADHD for over 16% of the kids bouncing off the walls?
Take away all the sugar/carbs and run the heck out of the kids before school and mid day and you might have healthier calmer kids who do not get diabetes and heart disease in their thirties and forties.
This is a pretty absurd conclusion to draw that school shootings were caused by the medications, unless there has been professional (medical, psychiatric) diagnosis that can confirm it. The criminals often have a history of a mental disorder in the first place. How many school shootings are prevented because they are on prescription drugs? We do not know, but we should be asking that as well
Medication such as Ritalin, and many other drugs are found to help many more people than harm them. Those that don’t are taken off the market. All drugs have side effects. Most people don’t experience them. When people are on medication, especially children, they are monitored by their doctors. Is there abuse? Absolutely.
This idea of ‘force fed’ is ridiculous. It has to get by the parents who are increasingly wary of medications. This myopic view doesn’t consider street drugs or drug withdrawal.
But primarily it assumes that the kid is OK otherwise if it just wasn’t those drugs they gave them. HORSE HOCKEY!
Do you know what the second most common AD/.HD drug is…the alternative to Ritalin or the one given when it doesn’t work any longer?
And here is something that should be an adequate link for you…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/01/143017520/foster-kids-even-infants-more-likely-to-be-given-psychotropic-drugs
In cases of foster care, there aren’t parents to ‘get by’…
Not so much, fish. The actual numbers of kids who *might* need these harsh drugs is very small. Many of these kids are indeed being force-fed these things because it is easy to make an incorrect diagnosis even when properly trained to do it and that goes double when not so properly trained. There’s no way on God’s Green Earth that I’m going to agree that 3 to 5% of kids have ADHD, given how soft and malleable the criteria are. I might accept 0.5%
Steve, my comment completely disappeared.
Did Word Press eat it or just boot it into moderation?
Every solution proposed by liberals always deal with things that would have no effect with the problem that originated the action.
. . . and when their solution fails, they expand it.
the very definition of “dysfunction” …
Three bobble-heads in a row agreeing mindlessly to a stereotype….a-dip-a-dee-a-dip-a-doo-a-dip-a-dee-a-d-ip-a-doo……
Small things amuse small minds.
Pesky makes a compelling argument.
Or “fix it” which is the same thing.
philjourdan said at 11:07 am
Every solution proposed by liberals always deal with things that would have no effect with the problem that originated the action.
They also propose grandiose solutions for issues that are not problems.
-a-dip-a-doo-a-dip-a-dee….
More small things for the small mind.
True – that is where seat belt laws came from.
The Fish did not even bother to read the references just saw that guns were not being blame so it HAD to be “pretty absurd conclusion to draw that school shootings were caused by the medications, unless there has been professional (medical, psychiatric) diagnosis that can confirm it.”
FISH, read the darn links. THOSE ARE DOCTORS confirming there is a problem.
This is from the mother of a boy in jail for murder after he went nuts from Paxil.
If you want more information there are pages of references at that link. (It is a very long article.)
I read the links, Gail. Unlike you, I am not persuaded by a Dr who has an overriding political agenda. Apparently, Dr Wilson uses anecdotal ‘evidence’ as his research. Naturally he hates Obama and defends the NRA which is I’m sure the reason you gravitate to him and the reason his ‘research’ can’t be trusted.