In my day he would be marked for advancement, today he is "autistic."

These things are not mutually exclusive.

It's almost as if you force a child to do something, they can easily prove they can focus on it and do it.

You've reached the opposite conclusion than is logical from the post you replied to. No, you can't force a child with ADHD to focus on something they don't find interesting. Their brain literally does not work that way. It's the same as trying to punish a paralyzed child into walking.

It's called work instead of fun-happy-time for a reason.

Note that with adults (who have had a chance to develop attention regulation), we give a positive incentive for working (payment). When we force adults to work under threat of punishment, that's called slavery, which is illegal in many places and generally frowned upon (no one wants that for their child).

You know what spankings and other real punishment did for GenX?

Created people who mostly agree children should not be treated this way...

and I have an BOX full of DVD/CD drives!

billing $0.05 per byte vs $0.05 per GB may doit.

humans are increasingly out of the loop so take that lobster for $0.00999 per pound when it should of been $9.99 per pound. my ticket says paid in full.

did someone mess up cents vs dollars on the unit?
Like should of been 0.000005 cents per KB but was put in as 0.000005 dollars per KB

should not be allowed to take bets on that at all!

what about trump TV for $9.99/mo

HP INK only $39.99/GAL

so if I go to an sony store and delete stuff off the shift it's not shoplifting?

Merit should always consider strictly value.

HBO is now HBO + showtime and priceing will go up as take the cost of both and add it together.

skills shortage well college needs to be more trades like and need more schools to get skills with out it being an 2/4/6 year thing.

AI customer service gets it wrong at times and then someone needs to fix it.

workers comp issues and if some gets hurt then