Students Stand When Called Upon, and When Not

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“The children in Ms. Brown’s class, and in some others at Marine Elementary School and additional schools nearby, are using a type of adjustable-height school desk, allowing pupils to stand while they work, that Ms. Brown designed with the help of a local ergonomic furniture company two years ago. The stand-up desk’s popularity with children and teachers spread by word of mouth from this small town to schools in Wisconsin, across the St. Croix River. Now orders for the desks are being filled for districts from North Carolina to California.” via NYTimes.

Could this be all it might take to stem the tide of tarring and feathering a significant fraction of American gradeschoolers with the ADHD label? (As readers of FmH know, I think this is one of the greatest travesties of modern psychodiagnosis.)

7 thoughts on “Students Stand When Called Upon, and When Not”

  1. (As readers of FmH know, I think this is one of the greatest travesties of modern psychodiagnosis.)

    Pardon me eliot, but could you point me to a link or your further thoughts on this? I know you are right, but would like to hear more.

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  2. It’s too bad that the coverage seems focused on obesity/exercise, when really this seems to be more about allowing the kids to express their natural energy (and varied learning styles) in a way that’s non-disruptive to a class — pedagogy meets human development. Imagine the effect it could have even younger, like first grade, when kids are still full of wiggly limbs and hardly able to sit in their seats when excited!

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  4. Sorry, Uncle, been kind of busy for a few days. The best way to get at this is to mosey over to the search box in the right hand sidebar. Unfortunately, I have sometimes referred to the entity as ‘ADHD’ and sometimes spelled out the acronym. So if you do two searches, on ‘ADHD’ and on ‘attention deficit’, up will come my rants and raves.

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  5. I have to say, I can not agree with you in 100%, but that’s just my IMHO, which could be very wrong.
    p.s. You have an awesome template for your blog. Where have you got it from?

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  6. Regarding the template: scroll down to the very last line on the page for the reference. It is a free WordPress template, but I have customized the CSS to my own needs.

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