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When drug therapy works, says Utah's Wender, "it is one of the most dramatic effects in psychiatry." Roseman tells how one first-grader came into his office after trying Ritalin and announced, "I know how it works." "You do?" asked the doctor. "Yes," the child replied. "It cleaned out my ears. Now I can hear the teacher." A third-grader told Roseman that Ritalin had enabled him to play basketball. "Now when I get the ball, I turn around, I go down to the end of the room, and if I look up, there's a net there...
...According to the [classics] head tutor, the grader had already read it," she said. "So what he was doing on the T witch it is beyond...
...those thirteen years of home runs, line drives and caught stealings the only time I missed the game was when I was a fifth grader on an extended school field trip to Groton, MA for nature exploration. In retrospect, I should have gone to the game...
...unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader named Lance, 12, serving day two of a three-day sentence for tardiness. His pencil is worn to the nub from writing "I will follow school rules" 200 times. (The record is 500.) "This place is just terrible...
...have known equally many mature enough to handle, indeed thrive on, being treated like adults. The blue books in Professor Fleming's course, which I have read as a grader, always have reflected this--a substantial number of them mediocre and derived from circulating photocopied notes, but many others that showed genuine interest and understanding...