Teachers feel threatened by orange toy plastic gun.

[MiniMan64]

I'd be intrguied by people's thoughts on this story if the tag line was "School fails to act when pupil threatens to shoot fellow children with toy gun"

[IanMorewood]

That's simple, confiscate toy, put child face into corner and have them stand like that for an hour or two.

[superkartracer]

photosnob said:

ADHD isn't real

I'd have given him a slap if he was my kid.

Any source material on your research ? interested to hear from someone that has done extensive research into the human brain and the various very complex underlining issues.

A research team in the UK screened DNA across the entire genome from 366 children with ADHD and 1047 children without the condition for rare but massive regions of DNA that were either missing from where they should be or duplicated. They looked for these abnormalities, called copy-number variants or CNVs, because some had been linked previously with other psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and autism.
16 % of the children with ADHD had abnormally high numbers of CNVs, double the 8 per cent of normal children who had them: the ADHD children had double the risk of carrying these genetic abnormalities.ADHD children had CNVs in sites on chromosome 16 that overlapped with CNVs previously found in children with schizophrenia

But i lost interest when i read the slap/kid etc...

Adult ADHD ( ADD ) here + dyslexic and i assure you it's very real

PS. I don't slap/abuse my children either, cus one day they will punch you back.

Edited by superkartracer on Saturday 7th March 12:42

[MiniMan64]

IanMorewood said:

That's simple, confiscate toy, put child face into corner and have them stand like that for an hour or two.

You got forgot the final two steps of that story.

Sack teacher for causing psychological damage to child.
Sell story to Daily Mail

[Efbe]

superkartracer said:

photosnob said:

ADHD isn't real

I'd have given him a slap if he was my kid.

Any source material on your research ? interested to hear from someone that has done extensive research into the human brain and the various very complex underlining issues.

A research team in the UK screened DNA across the entire genome from 366 children with ADHD and 1047 children without the condition for rare but massive regions of DNA that were either missing from where they should be or duplicated. They looked for these abnormalities, called copy-number variants or CNVs, because some had been linked previously with other psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and autism.
16 % of the children with ADHD had abnormally high numbers of CNVs, double the 8 per cent of normal children who had them: the ADHD children had double the risk of carrying these genetic abnormalities.ADHD children had CNVs in sites on chromosome 16 that overlapped with CNVs previously found in children with schizophrenia

But i lost interest when i read the slap/kid etc...

Adult ADHD ( ADD ) here + dyslexic and i assure you it's very real

PS. I don't slap/abuse my children either, cus one day they will punch you back.

Edited by superkartracer on Saturday 7th March 12:42

Sorry SKR, but what I read from these findings (as interpreted by yourself) is that only 16% of people with ADHD show these abnormalities, double the usual rate.
This certainly doesn't prove a thing. Let alone show cause or effect.

If this is the cause, then you have just shown that 83% of people diagnosed with ADHD don't actually have it!

[superkartracer]

Nope, it shows that for 16% there are REAL changes on a biological level, the remaining lot are most prob false cases/poor diet or a lie ( this does happen you know ) . The condition is very real and not fake

[Vincefox]

As often is the way, the solution is somewhere in the middle. Calling the police (if this is an isolated incident) is pushing it a bit, but as someone else said on here, this could also be a headline about how the kid shot someone else in the eye with it.

Not sure why, but i'm getting the vibe of that kid off game of thrones that likes chucking people out the trapdoor about this one.