GUEST--again, I am not seeing anything that I would call teacher bashing, only folks commenting that, if the boy in question was given Ritalin only because it was recommended by a particular teacher, that it wasn't apprppriate--

There are a lot of "educators" who feel that they are the experts, and everyone should completely accept everything that they say because they have spent however many years dealing with the "problem" in the classroom, and that this means they "know" better than anyone else--

However, over the last twenty five years, medical and psychological researchers have found that a lot of what were once thought to be simply behavioral problems are really cognitive and information ordering differences, and that kids that have these issues must be dealt with differently than those with family issues or with psychiatric and emotional issues.

This means that even "educators" who have been dealing with these problems for a long time don't know all that there is to know about them--unfortunately there are a fair number out there with the attitude that "I have a Master's Degree and 23+ years teaching experience, and no one tells me what to do."