Lozzo

ADD/ADHD is a poor excuse that people use for their own failings. I've worked with kids that have been diagnosed as ADD and ADHD and the truth of the matter from where I was standing is that the parents have no control, no respect for authority, no responsibility and let their kids just run riot. When their running riot is addressed, the parents will push every button needed to have their kid labelled as 'different' as if to give them an excuse for their own bad perenting.

We had kids who were supposed to be on meds to control their ADD/ADHD, but they never took them and their parents would always send them in to us with a bag full of snack foods full of all the E numbers that are supposed to be kept out of their diet.

There's only one solution, ban the use of the terms ADD and ADHD and threaten to put the 'sufferers' in front of a firing squad at the third offence. I'll bet you'll find an awful lot of these stupid terms and conditions would magically vanish overnight.

I'm sorry, but I can't see the point in wasting time and money on counselling, medication, and special needs teaching facilities for these types of kids, when a quick hard punch in the face(*) at an early age would have done the job.

Let's spend that money helping the kids with real and proper learning difficulties, like dyslexia, dyspraxia and suchlike.

(*) And one for each parent too.