Several Texas Schools Tripled Recess Time And It Has Been Helping The Growing ADHD Problem

The majority of us who attended public school probably have dreadful memories of enforced drudgery -  being forced to sit at our desks, listen to the teacher, memorize textbooks, and complete tests based on that rote memorization. As horrible as this sounds, it's actually been getting worse.

Physical education, art, and music classes are slowly being phased out of school curriculums, which inevitably means more desk time, memorization, and regurgitation.

Naturally, children are acting out more than ever before. Children aren't meant to be sitting for hours on end; they are meant to be playing, observing, and learning through experiences rather than through facts read in a book. Resistant to this type of education, children are being labelled with disorders such as ADHD at an alarming rate and then medicated to ensure their conformity.

But what if these children don't have a problem at all? What if it is the current school system that is the problem? Wouldn't that mean we are drugging our children unnecessarily, and to their detriment? There are much better solutions out there that should have been considered before we began diagnosing young children who simply don't want to sit at a desk all day.

I know there are some exceptions, and there are some extreme cases of ADHD where children absolutely do need assistance, but that does not encompass the general populous of school-aged children.