Good site and section. Well, I must say, I have been hyper focused on how the public school shafted me when they first diagnosed me with a learning disability. I am over that. Thats all in the past. All I can do now is raise some awareness how SOME people in the school system need to wake up.

I was talking with the person who diagnosed me with A.D.D and a learning disability. She told me to forget the label. People can label me A.D.D and other politically incorrect terms that I was called right up from the beginning all they want. All i have now is behavoirs that cannot go away. I zone in and out and I am still not good at social situations. I put part of the blame on the environments I was in.

Whats really bad is how some schools do not put a focus on social skills, acceptance and respect. I feel like all my life I have never quite been fortunate there but I pressed on. I was so focused on doing well in school I shrugged off my social life. I am paying for it now.

So I am here to say, schools do not teach any kinds of social skills. Based on my expieriances and what I have seen, its those who are labeled and put in special education classes that suffer socially. Its based on a system that has been created for others to feel better and others put at the bottom of the ladder. It sickens me to see this go on and I cannot stand to see it go on and on.

So to the parents with kids in special ed classes, please try to encourage your kids to get involved in something or try to somehow bridge a gap between the special ed classes and the other classes. It sickens me to see this kind of segregation going on. Sucks how some have to be bused to other schools. It sucks how some teachers are telling parents to get thier kids tested for A.D.D or A.D.H.D and they turn out to be misdiagnosed. I appluad how a law was passed to keep schools from telling parents to medicate their kids.

I do not know if this worries anyone, but teachers are gaining more power with thier Unions. Now do not get me wrong. I am not on this anti-education agenda. To some degrees I think Unions are good. However if they have too much power that can be bad. For example say a parent of a kid with A.D.D and A.D.H.D is having trouble with a teacher for not doing his or her job reguarding the treatment of his/her child. Parent raises some issues and things the teacher is not doing and wants to file charges against the teacher and the school. Well the Unions can side with the teacher, claim they are doing well, not follow the laws at all, hire a lawyer they can easily afford and win. Its happening. Maybe I am ignorant to this issue but I see this as being a problem. New laws have been passed though, but this opens the door for more laws to be violated and more parents need to be aware of them as do educators. Otherwise the kid will be the real victim in all this.