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I had "adhd" because my classes were mind numbingly boring and they taught to the lowest common denominator, coincidentally when I was offered a chance to take college classes instead of highschool ones my diagnosis disappeared. I have a feeling a lot of the kids who have too much energy in class are simply at the point where they understood the concept being discussed the first time and now have 50 minutes to burn while the teacher repeats themselves 100 times. I could see playing with a spinner thingy back then I guess, instead I mostly just fidgeted with my pencils.
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I pretended my pencils were really lame action figures and had them fight each other.
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May 9, 2017 21:14
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Hopper posted:Serious question to teachers ITT: It sounds like fidget spinners and other toys are tolerated in class until a certain threshold of users is reached. When I went to school in the 80ies and 90ies there was an absolute 0 tolerance policy on any kind of toy in class. We were expected to concentrate on what was taught and to actively participate and that was that. I feel like there's kind of an unfortunate disconnect here cause some chunk of kids who this sort of toy appeal to are just bored out of their minds in class, have already learned this month's material 3 weeks ago, and are dicking around because they're expected to sit through hours of needless review everyday. Not to say every adhd kid is a savant but it's a p common scenario.
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May 30, 2017 08:31
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Hopper posted:But realistically in a class of 20-30 kids how many fit what you describe above? 1 if you are really lucky, more realistically 0. Now look around you how many kids use those spinners? that's not a bad point but there's also something to be said about our education system not doin enough about those who excel while by being super willing to hurt average students in the name of those who fall behind. The kids who wanna play with these spinners in class aren't gonna be more attentive if you take em away. that's p much the biggest drawback of the public education system, it squanders a whole lot of potential.
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