[quote=Theory5;266158]Sounds like you are saying the conformity is the same as doing better...... I know what you mean though when you say that other kids are keeping the ones who can suceed from suceeding. Its all about what other kids think about them :-/
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ESE for those who are willing to learn but have some learning disabilities (not retarded, just not as intelligent as the normal population)[/qoute]
Careful, there. A learning disability does not automatically mean that they are not as intellegent as the 'normal' as you put it, people. ADHD is classified as a learning disability yet it does not affect my intellegence. There are hundreds of thousands of people that are smarter than average even though they have learning disabilities.
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Well, I personally believe that a large majority (probably up to the 90 percents) of ADD/ADHD patients are just kids who don't like math or science or whatever class they're in and their parents say that 'no, my child isn't immature, he just has a disability'. But that's another debate altogether.
I realise that not all mental problems do not make you unintelligent; people with autism could be geniuses, for one - and schizos could be masters at something. What I meant was impairments of logical and comprehensive thought, as in a sort of repression of the mind, one that does not allow you to advance very far, such as mental retardation, quite a few autistic cases (not the genius kind), down syndrome, ect. Things that can actually cause you to have social and mental impairments. Forgive me for my generalisation.
And I didn't mean conformity; I respect kids' rights. However, I believe that in a learning environment, your priority isn't to speak out on your beliefs or express individuality, which is what schools are becoming - school is for school. The mall, the cinema, the park, those are places of self-expression, where your main priority is your friends. However, in school, it's becoming more and more of a 'hang-out', where kids show off their most recent skater shoes, their wicked sweatshirts, their cool jeans. At least in my school, kids fight for no uniform under the impression that they deserve freedom of speech. Well, I agree. They do. But school is not a public forum of expression. It is a school, an environment of learning.
