Well said Liz.

BTW, we followed the same protocols for ADHD as we did for parents and some Psychiatrists’ and GP’s willingness to prescribe SSRI’s as some kind of “fast fix” panecea for depression.

It really helped that we had one kick ass good school nurse who was on board. And really really helped that her husband was a pediatrician.

And in the 1990’s right up to 2012, we thought the increase in diagnoses for both was out of control.

Alas, it is even more so now, with social media and Covid exacerbating the sadness on one hand for our children and the profound lack of hearing from those adults ‘in charge’ of our students’ well being on the other.