[KenWittlief]

yes, you can have children who never learned discipline, who were never held accountable for their actions, who were never made to sit and work on one task at time

and they will have trouble in school.

Thing is, if those kids dont have ADD, it will be easy for them to learn to discipline themselves - normal things we do in school would quickly put them on the right track.

But if you have a student with ADD, trying to train them to focus on one thing, like you are teaching a dog to sit with a biscuit on his nose

would be like trying to train a blind person to see colors.

Children are very rarely diagnosed with ADD before 2nd or 3rd grade - often later than that

so they have already been in the same classroom situations as the rest of the kids - these children were not found living in the woods with a pack of wolves :c)

bad habits CAN be corrected - good study habits can be learned

but if you have ADD, you cant learn to not have it.

in the very recent past, students with ADD were considered lazy, unrulely, troublemakers and many did not make it through highschool

and they didnt fair well in life after school either.

Recognizing that ADD is a real thing, that we think and respond differently that most people, has made a HUGE impact on the quality of life for people with ADD.