Blog Post 3

One question that I came across during my reading of, To Teach,  was, ”Should schools start diagnosing children with different disorders?”  I think that there is some good and bad that can come out of the spike in the diagnosing of disorders. Some children really do have a disorder such as ADHD or a learning deficiency. Those children need to be able to have special attention and accommodations made for them. I do think that we diagnose kids too willingly. When people are questioning if there is something wrong with a kid, they think the worst. They believe the kid has a disorder. I have witnessed this when I worked at a daycare. The teachers and workers would always diagnose the children with disorders. If a child acted out just once, they would say the kid has some disorder. The problem is that sometimes kids are just being kids. They have to learn from mistakes. There's an idea that if students do not fit in a box, then they are broken or messed up. That is not true. Everyone is different, and teachers need to realize that. Kids have lives outside of school. Those lives could be affecting their performance. Before we say a child has a disorder, we have to listen and talk to the children more to understand their home life. Teachers need to be understanding of each student and not expect each kid to be perfect all the time.