Comment Re:Education funding and excessive medicallisation (Score 1) 558
While I'm very much in favour of education being better able to deal with kids' differences, I'm not sure medicalising it is the way to go.
I completely agree with this - but more with those maybe cases. There will always be a bunch of kids with very clear and profound issues and who need a formal diagnosis to trigger appropriate support. It is those kids who go through the usual developmental issues but who have uninformed helicopter parents pushing clinical staff into providing treatment in some shape of form. It is not just school. What I think we do need in some cases is professional face slappers to bring people back to the real world and just let kids grow up.