[eruditely]

Your response is vague apologism for irresponsible journalism justified on a minor technicality. The articles is so stupidly charitable to it's own worldview(in the sense of lying) and omitting so much from the other side that it is ridiculous.

You are wrong to think that these people deserve "serious consideration", when the article is written itself to produce knee-jerk reactions "The drugging of the american boy....", as if we had IV Heroin plugged to these kids. Article allows for the opposition, most people who have random opinions about ADHD for no apparent reason other than to have an opinion.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23382575 (Is ADHD a Risk Factor for High School Dropout? A Controlled Study.) tells us that " Conclusion: Participants with ADHD were significantly more likely to repeat a grade"

Do you know the cost of high school drop outs or grade repeats to society? What about to the kid, who suffers massive self-esteem loss and under-values himself? Why is the author not more responsible? The modern era brings us new journalism-contrarian-chic, stylstic articles that irresponsibly lend fuel to very harmful world-views(such asADHD is not serious)

What drugs, exactly, and to which boy? Is the cost of not-treating much greater than the cost of treating? The article is merely an appeal to pop-trash trendy world-views, and does not deserve much of a response at all

[gress]

The loss of self esteem resulting from how school treats kids is due to a fault with school, not with the kids.

[eruditely]

You're right, as long as we fix the schools and the parents. Of which the majority have little scientific background, will use vague inprecise heuristics such as you are not disciplined enough, as opposed to the much easier solution of providing drugs so that these kids not crash their vehicles.

Irresponsible apologism over and over while not demanding the same from the author. Anti-medication pop-trash.

[gress]

It sounds as though you are seriously promoting using drugs to control children's behavior to solve the problem of poor schools.

Downvotes? Am I misreading the parent?

[DerpDerpDerp]

No one is saying we shouldn't be giving drugs to some kids.

It's saying we're over diagnosing, and giving drugs to kids who don't need them.

Giving 1 in 20 boys amphetamines for no reason is not a good thing - it's a dangerous and bad thing.