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This is the book she aimed at laymen??

Girl I'm fifteen pages in and you've repeated yourself several times, made multiple anecdotal claims without providing any empirical evidence to support those claims, and generally dismissed adhd as a fake diagnosis meant to cover up the over use of screens which will be news to my mother who's adhd is literally worse than mine despite being from an earlier generation

I gotta take a break because this woman's anecdotal "old man yells at clouds" claims based on the anecdotal reports of teachers (who, having been a public school student once I can firmly say, are often bad at teaching), is genuinely brain numbing drivel

Jane I cannot emphasize enough that the plural of anecdote is not data

Oh look her doctorate in is philosophy

That scans

Her post doc is in developmental psych but I'm extremely skeptical of her claims given the "50% of kids at some schools are on ritalin" claim from the intro

I actively enjoy reading academic texts and I'm 9 pages in and this is already miserable

Girl how about instead of fearmongering about a very real and under diagnosed and under treated neurodevolopmental disability you took a writing class idk

Yeah so I fully do not believe that this woman met a teacher who had 50% of her students on ritalin

1. Ritalin is among the harshest stimulant treatments for adhd so we tend to try the other ones first
2. Ritalin is typically taken at home not at school
3. Sharing that kind of information if it were true (which it definitely isn't) would be so unethical and gross

“Bracey advocates what he calls the “zero-based” curriculum: start from scratch and justify everything you let back in.”

I’m sufficiently convinced of the evils of Sesame Street 😆

I WILL finish this before Christmas 😤

Recommended by my mom & interesting so far—although at this point, the research is old and I’d love to get a more updated version. I’ll have to look up the author when I’ve finished and see what else she’s done since, I guess.