OMG Alpha, that's horrible. I'm so sorry that they did that to you. They didn't hit me at school, only b/c my mom wouldn't allow it, she was the only one allowed to "discipline" me. But, my reports used to always be the same thing, "needs to apply herself" "makes careless mistakes" etc. Careless implies we don't care & that just annoys the crap out of me. My intelligence was high but I had trouble retaining what I read & did horribly on tests. Often didn't even study for tests b/c somehow I'd missed the teacher even announcing that we were having one at all. Got into so much trouble for that repeatedly. My mom wouldn't even allow ADHD to be mentioned in the house. She freaked out. And b/c it's in the learning disability category, refused to even consider it. She insisted that there was nothing wrong w/me.