Nov 18 2012: Cynthia, I believe your initial idea is great. I agree that education needs to be tailored by the educator to best fit the needs of the students. I think your examples are lacking a little steam, but again, you have the right idea. The amount of sleep per night for children and adults I think is much more dependent on the time management skills and discipline of each individual student. I am a full time student, with a full time job, married, with a child on the way, and I still manage to get 8-10 hours of sleep a night. Secondly, I agree that the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD is given out way to easily without looking at the reasons behind a child's behavior. There are so many other factors that are involved with a child's behavior (discipline, authority, environment, etc.) that could promote behavior that is analogous to ADD/ADHD but is really just the result of other factors.
Great topic, maybe there are other reasons and examples as to how we can best tailor and modify the education system to best fit the needs of the students.
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Great topic, maybe there are other reasons and examples as to how we can best tailor and modify the education system to best fit the needs of the students.