I didn't read the blog... but I agree that there are positive and negative possibilities. I think the best scenerio would be to view this as an opportunity for parents and schools to work together to each provide something they can use their resources for. I have several teacher friends... friends that amaze me with their dedication to teaching and to their students in spite of how lousy teachers are treated in society... and often they talk about the parents who get involved with their children's schooling... when the child has a weakness they ask how they can help at home to help them learn or encourage them to like school... as opposed to parents who seem to think that school is nothing more than an 8 hour day care center... if a child is having a serious problem with learning or with behaviour, and the teacher talks to the parents about it, the parent's response is like during those 8 hours the kid is your problem, not ours, so you deal with it.

It certainly could be an opportunity for an abuse of prescribing medications, I think schools would have to be surveilent to not let that happen, and parents would have to have a responsibility to make their own decisions based on the school's recommendations, but the school could help by providing research to help the parents understand it better. In cases where parents may be ignorant or unaware of such problems, or that such problems are treatable, this could be a really good opportunity to find at least some of the children who might otherwise be "left behind" to suffer needlesly. Of course there will still be parents who are stubborn and believe the stereotypes and stygma's... maybe some input from the school can help them change their minds in some cases, but for the really stubborn not much is going to help I think.

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