Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School ?

In the article "Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School" By Alan Schwarz talks about doctors lying about low income patients struggling in school having A.D.H.D and giving them Adderall to do better in school.

The pill boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. A.D.H.D is a disease but Dr. Anderson doesn’t think so but prescribes the pills to help what he says their true problem is poor academic performance. Dr. Anderson said "I don’t have a whole lot of choice" "We've decided as a society that it’s too expensive to change to change the kid's environment. So we change the kid". The idea is gaining interest among some physicians.

Experts note that wealthy students abuse stimulants to raise already good grades in high school and colleges. The low income parents with children with falling grades want their child to succeed; Dr. Anderson says "it’s just evening the scales a little bit".

They still don’t know how the drugs affect the developing of the brain. When a patient name Quinton began puberty at about 10 he started getting in to fights saying other children was talking about his mother. the problem was they wasn’t Quinton was seeing people and hearing voices that were not there, a rare but recognized side effect of Adderall. After Quinton admitted to being suicidal he spent a week in a psychiatric hospital and switched to Risperdal.

I think they shouldn’t been giving the pills in the first place. It was a bunch of steps they could have did before just prescribing the kids Adderall. If they switched Quinton to Risperdal after he started getting side effects, why didn’t he get Risperdal in the beginning. If they didn’t know how the pill affected the brain why give it to people. They had to know something was wrong if they had to lie about the kids having A.D.H.D.

90 Days without a Cell Phone, Email or Social Media

In the article “90 Days without a Cell Phone, Email or Social Media” by Brad Sylvester is about Jake Reilly, a 24-year-old copywriting student at the Chicago Portfolio School living with no electronic conveniences such as email, text, instagram, twitter and more.

It’s well known as “the Amish project”, from October to December he unplugged from social media, email, texts, etc. because he felt like we wasn’t spending enough time with the people we care about.

 This article is basically an interview where Sylvester ask Reilly a number of questions about what he learned from his experience and how it change his life. Sylvester asks him questions like what steps did he take to prepare himself? Did he ever cheat or check what messages came in? Have finishing this make your life different? What else did you learn?

Reilly says he prepared his self by “suspended service for my cell phone. I deactivated Facebook. I deactivated Twitter, deactivated Linked-In, deactivated Spotify, and anything where there was a social component. I put up an out-of-office on both of my email accounts, like, “I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but I won’t receive this until the end of the year.”

Reilly never went back on any of the social stuff. There were a few times when the bank would send me email verification but he said “I genuinely didn’t want to see what was there, because once you look you’ve got an urge to read it”.

“It’s definitely different, but I catch myself doing exactly what I hated.” “I think that’s what my biggest thing is: There’s not so much chasing for me now. I’m here now, and let’s just enjoy this. You can be comfortable with yourself and not have to go to the crutch of your phone. For me, that’s more what I will take away from this.” Reilly said.

I personally think this is really cool and makes a lot of good points. I would be open to be doing it but do think it’s going to hard. In my opinion everyone should do this and maybe we could all get more connected.

Texting Taking A Toll ? Niz Khalifa !

In the article “Texting May Be Taking A Toll” by Katie Hafner talks about how texting is hurting kids. First it talks about how the average teenager send 2,272 text messages per month also how is worrying physicians and psychologists cause they could get anxiety, falling grades, sleep deprivation etc. They also did surveys in two high schools where students admit to texting in class, proving it is a big distraction for kids and teachers say they don’t how to stop it. Then go on to say how texting is effecting how kids are growing up and helping them separate from their parents. Later on says texting is also taking a toll on teenager’s thumbs because a 15 year old ninth-grader got painful cramps in thumbs and has an iphone now but text slower. I personally I think that this article is extremely over rated to make texting really bad for you. Some of these conditions are worst case sernieros that rarely happen to anyone and don’t know in what way how texting is helping you separate from your parents the article didn’t really show any examples on that. But I do agree with some points it can be real distracting for some teenagers and a little time consuming.

Cheating

In the article Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception by Richard Perez-Pena, in the NY Times states that cheating has reached a large-scale.
  Experts say the reason is cheating has become easier and tolerated. Cheating always been a problem but now a days with the internet and phones reached a new high.
   Their saying the ones who don’t even need to cheat are because they feel pressured to do well in school by their parents, could it be the parents fault for pressuring or teachers for tolerating?
    Teachers don’t really care how u get the answers and don’t tell you what you can or can’t do. Turns out half the ways students do get their answer are cheating and don’t know it.
     I personally don’t think cheating is that big of a problem but I do think it is tolerated.