There's a much bigger story here if only there were a newspaper willing to put an investigative journalist on this.

The highest share of college graduates of any country means nothing if these kids cannot think on their own. One of the biggest problems we have in this country is that the student-turned-employee cannot perform on the job to match what is expected in having that bachelor's degree. I interviewed a University of Kentucky journalism school graduate who had a 3.5 but could not tell me what the five W's stood for in writing a news piece. She did not get the job. Dual-enrollment is ... More »

This is a good opinion piece that is trying to expose the knee-jerk reaction to a possibly misbehaving child with no boundaries as being ADD/ADHD. She shows opposition to the immediate and arm-chair diagnosing of a child with ADD/ADHD. Dr. Fournier is not just an educator, she is also a pharmacist and her husband is a development pediatrician. I'd say they have the knowledge to diagnose ADD/ADHD properly, given the 30+ years they've studied and seen cases on the issue.

The demise of print journalism started in 1928 when Kolin Hager read the news and weather reports in front of a microphone and a video camera at a station in Schenectady, New York. That was some 238 years after Benjamin Harris published the first issue in the colonies of his newspaper, Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic. Economy, scandal, backward thinking management, refusal to develop a new operations paradigm, community cheerleading in place of quality journalism, ... More »