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 "I always make a point of asking patients of mine who are schoolteachers and have been teaching for 20 or 30 years whether there has been a change in the behavior of children during that time. The replies are consistently emphatic—that there has been a drastic change in children. There are more hyperactivity and attention deficit problems, more learning disorders and more behavioral problems."
On the other hand, many experts, especially over the past decade, are challenging the idea that this is a real mental disorder and objecting to the way children are being stigmatized by it."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Sandy took Peter to a grief counselor, but the talking didn't seem to help. His schoolteachers began to complain that he wouldn't pay attention and seemed to be lost in space. One day Peter crawled into the tunnel on the playground and refused to come out. "The counselor thought he hadn't gotten over his dad's death," Sandy recalled. "Everybody said, 'Put him on meds.'"
A psychiatrist diagnosed Peter with attention deficit disorder and scribbled a prescription for Ritalin. But the drug seemed to do more harm than good, and the doctor switched him to a pill called Dexedrine."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Hillmer invited a silver-haired woman wearing a bright blue gingham jacket to try on a pair of goggles. schoolteachers used the eyewear, she said, to show kids how blurred their vision would be if they tried to drive drunk. The woman reluctantly pulled on the glasses and tried to walk. "Do I look drunk?" she mumbled as she stumbled down the aisle. Ms. Hillmer waved her hands in the air, gesturing at her volunteer. "I don't mean to scare you," she told the women, "but it's just something we don't think about." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "A year later, 208 counts of child abuse involving about 40 children were handed down against seven adults: the McMartins, Ray Buckey, and four schoolteachers.
Thus began a modern public spectacle.
It took more than two decades before it wound down. That was in 2005, when the Los Angeles Times finally got around to publishing the first retraction from one of the student victims. Kyle Zirpolo (then known as Kyle Sapp) confessed that he had made up his accusations at the age of eight because of pressure from his family and the social workers who interviewed him."- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "All of us recalled how farmers, extension agents, schoolteachers, feed store salesmen, and billboard ads claimed that the chemicals were miraculously effective and safe.
As farm kids, we knew that the chemicals were effective. We knew that arsenic, nicotine, and lead killed pests and that the chemical fertilizers produced good yields, even though most of our folks were small farmers who rarely used them. All of us knew, however, that the claims about safety were B.S., because we would get our butts whipped if we went near the chemical storehouse."- Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "Another report noted that, "In a pilot study at the University of California at San Francisco, researchers found that schoolteachers briefly trained in Buddhist techniques and who meditated less than 30 minutes a day improved their moods as much as if they had taken antidepressants."35 Love and compassion are health-skills in which we can train ourselves.
The use of visualizations to help patients cope with cancer was pioneered by Carl Simonton and others in the 1970s. I vividly remember an interview I did with a woman in 1989."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
 "Parents feel increasingly beset and isolated, and distrustful of those who once joined them in an adult alliance. schoolteachers, neighbours and other members of the local community feel increasingly threatened by children's behaviour and parental distrust. Someone has to break this vicious cycle, and it probably has to be parents, since it's their children who have to live in the world we're creating today."- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
 "The publication Rethinking Schools, which represented socially conscious schoolteachers all over the country, printed a 100-page book called Rethinking Columbus, featuring articles by Native Americans and others, a critical review of children's books on Columbus, a listing of resources for people wanting more information on Columbus, and more reading material on counter-quincentenary activities. In a few months, 200,000 copies of the book were sold."- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "In the fall of 1982, United Press International reported: Angered by layoffs, salary cuts and uncertainty about job security, more schoolteachers throughout the country have decided to go on strike. Teachers' strikes last week in seven states, from Rhode Island to Washington, have idled more than 300,000 students. Surveying a series of news events in the first week of January 1983, David Nyhan of the Boston Globe wrote: "There is something brewing in the land that bodes ill for those in Washington who ignore it." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "James Green describes these Southwest radicals, in his book Grass-Roots Socialism, as "indebted homesteaders, migratory tenant farmers, coal miners and railroad workers, 'redbone' lumberjacks from the piney woods, preachers and schoolteachers from the sunbaked prairies . . . village artisans and atheists ... the unknown people who created the strongest regional Socialist movement in United States history." Green continues: The Socialist movement . . ." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) |
 "He then asked the schoolteachers to rate the behavior of children they had taught for at least two months. This was done using a questionnaire designed to measure the teachers' rating of children for a number of characteristics. He also ran a series of behavioral, intellectual, and physiological tests on each child before dividing the children into six groups according to the lead concentration in their teeth.
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