Education: A House of Mirrors
Many people say ADD, ADHD and Gifted in the same breath. Gifted
as in a high intellect? Yes.
Now we have the next standard question - Why are these children that
have so much potential having problems? --Continues
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Disclaimer: None of this information is intended to take the place of a care giver / medical practitioner. This page is being put together with a International / Historical Viewpoint and there is the possibility that not ALL the links and ideas will apply to you. There are resources and information that may be available in another country that may not be available to you in your country. Please Read until you find information and links that you can use, they will be there and if they are not, Please TELL ME! "It is not up to thee to finish the task, but neither is it up to thee to exempt thyself from it." or You may not be able to replace them but can you learn enough to succeed them?
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1)
Definition of Learning Styles
One of the reasons that I believe IDEA was implimented(New
4 Nov 98)
Providence Journal Bulletin Nov. 5, 1993
Gifted not served by schools,
federal study finds
http://www.nfgcc.org/58.htm
ADD, ADHD, Gifted, and Creative
Legislation
and what we are allowing by Letting our children be labeled as only ADD
or ADHD
The National
Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children (NFGCC) - http://www.nfgcc.org/
A list of pages at that site, (NFGCC)
United Kingdom Association Gifted and Talented
- "for future"
The National Library of Education presents:
ERIC
- Educational Resources Information Center And the ERIC
Home page
A paper about Ritalin from a person that has
taken care of children that use it - Ritalin
Pennsylvania could lose money from their Gifted
Education area (will this happen to us)
Penn
Gifted
This shows what was known in 1993 and legislation
was put in place to support these students
yet suddenly it seems that the money is going
into Drugs instead of giftedness - a help for the
students to cope or a crutch for the schools
to say that they were not / are not the reason
http://www.nfgcc.org/58.htm(New
2 Nov 98)
Mensa Links for Able and Gifted Children -
MENSA
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2)
The Impact of Outside and Chemical Influences on the body and brain
Sweet Poison
http://www.sweetpoison.com/
MCS
- http://www.w3-mediator.de/mcs/index.htm
Rachel's
Enviromental Weekly - http://www.monitor.net/rachel/(New
5 Nov 98)
Index page - http://www.monitor.net/rachel/rehw-index.html(New
5 Nov 98)
Aspartame
- http://www.vegsource.com/davis/sweeteners.htm
links to over 30 sites - http://www.dorway.com/
Now after
looking at the other sites "Sweet Poison" and "Aspartame" with all the
documented medical
information that Aspartame caused death, hyperactivity and many other things
why does this site
say things
like this? http://ificinfo.health.org/brochure/aspartam.htm
and they call themselves -----
Then to the
current scoop on chemicals(New 2 Nov 98)
http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1998/10/102998/chemical.asp
Find more
about Health Canada's perspective on antibacterial soaps at
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat/ccdr/97vol23/vol23s7/index.html(New
04 Nov 98)
To find out
what the Soap and Detergent Association have to say on
antibacterial soap, visit http://www.sdahq.org/sdalatest/welcome.html(New
04 Nov 98)
Visit Tufts
University and find out more about there research at
http://www.tufts.edu/(New 04 Nov 98)
Learn more
about antibiotic resistance at
http://www.sciam.com/1998/0398issue/0398levy.html(New
04 Nov 98)
Antibiotics
in agriculture creating superbugs - TORONTO (Reuters) - 04:25 PM ET 11/03/98.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556919335-860(New
04 Nov 98)
Non-Milk
-http://www.antidairycoalition.com/062898.html
http://www.notmilk.com/
The American
Farmer up a Creek - without the paddle=
Terminator Seed Technology - http://www.greenpeace.org/~geneng/
Chemical
-> Environmental Health Network - http://users.lanminds.com/~wilworks/ehnindex.htm
HolisticMed.com
- This is a site that is "mega" loaded with American and International
links. Mind over Body
thinking
to Yoga.(New 16 Oct 98)
Kosher
http://www.primenet.com/~kosher/whatis.htm
Olestra can
give problems with absorbing other foods
http://www.abcnews.com/sections/living/DailyNews/olestra980904.html
This mostly
relates to the connection between pesticides and BSE, These include Organophosphate
sheep dip
"Diazinon,
Propetamphos, Chlorfenvinphos, Carbophenothion; and via a third party,
went on to Cufomate,
which
he had used as a warble fly dressing. I later explored all the OPs which
had been used in the Gulf War."
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Villa/2836/index.html(New
25 Oct 98)
NEED more
links to sites about the harm Canola (Rapeseed) Oil and the harm these
products can do.
A paper about
food additives - http://home1.gte.net/carriet/GovtPoisonFoods.htm
NEED
links to sites about the amount of DDT in Whales and other ocean life.
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(New 23Oct 98) Monsanto
is the company that makes Aspartame, Bovine Growth Hormone, Terminator
Seed Technology, Roundup, and assorted other goodies that are being proven
detrimental to the health of the family.
Sugar
has been shown to be addictive and a hazard to your health(1). It has been
linked to lung disease when used to cure tobacco. Think of burnt sugar,
now think of burning it in a cigarette. But what of cigarette manufacturers,
wonder of some of them are ready to make marijuana cigarettes - considering
California's newest legislation. What are the alternatives? It is not Aspartame
or artificial sweeteners, the ones currently on the market have been shown
to CAUSE things like Diabetes, heart attack to hyperactivity and death.
So what is the alternative? Macrobiotic Cooking(2) and the cookbooks that
they have put out can be a guideline. If anyone has other ideas, or urls
please send them to me! Will be putting a editorial on sugar in this site
within the next several weeks. In the Middle Ages refined sugar was originally
handled by apothecary shops as a dangerous drug, it was not until the Age
of Enlightenment that it started being used. It is one of the causes of
degenerative disease, as well as mental and emotional disorders. Bottom
line - do we label ADD, ADHD as genetic because we refuse to stop using
things that are detrimental to our health or do we look for the answers?
One more help - some vitamins have a bad bases, check out info on the web,
I suggest you look through the links - I use NATURAL and only the natural
food supplements. These are different in the ways that they are made. That
means that even though the merger between Monsanto and American Home Products
(makers of Centrum) fell through, "I" think that in some ways they are
still treading the same path.
new 27Oct98 RETRACT at 1515
checked http://www.biospace.com/b2/news_company.cfm?CompanyID=2403&SR=1
Which I should have done
in the first place and could not find ANYTHING about this. I jumped
too fast, on information from someone else.
25Oct98 at 1634
Monsanto currently has it's Nutra Sweet division on the aution block -
anyone wonder why? this is retracted above! There were a total
of only eight people on the page before I put the retraction on.
This page is not really out yet!
new 28Oct98 Want
to know more? Go to http://www.rafi.org/usda.html
Newest report - http://www.msnbc.com/news/209338.asp
(new 02 Now98)
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3)
Uncover Myths in Education
Myth 1 That
Home Schoolers Need to be under the Umbrella of a Church or Religious Group.
http://www.home-ed-press.com/INF/FREE/hsinfo_far1.html
Myth 2 All Public Education is
Helpful, we should live by the idea of peer group - socialization
http://www.axon-family.net/kaleb/poison_drops/(New
24 Oct 98)
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4)
Educational Helps
Has a history
of the educational system that our Teachers union is based on - wonder
if they
even
know????
Homeschooling
Resources (Bill Beaty's Homepage) - http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/home.html(new
09 Now98)
School is
Dead http://learninfreedom.org/table_of_contents.html
History of
Education - For the Future
Dr. Mom -
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3995/
Nasa - http://www.okstate.edu/aesp/AESP.html
Education
at Sea World - http://www.seaworld.org/homepage.html(New
16 Oct 98)
Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp
Dictionary
WWWebster Dictionary -
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary
Strange Search
- http://stange.simplenet.com/search/
Andrea's
English Page - http://www.hot1.net/ajbaker/index-e.html
Andrea's
Search (Engine) Link Page -
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1472/search.html
Mega links for
students and for those that are just interested in Texas (New
18Oct 98)
Bob Cozby's WWW Page
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5)
Activist Groups - Pro and Con - Your choice
EPA - Today's
"Toxic News for the Net" brought to you by the OPPT Library, is subscribeable
for free - http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/oppt_nb.txt
Medical Defense
Fund - California to rule ADHD a "genetic" disease? If seems as if
when a
person is
diagnose with this a doctor is not allowed to suggest that there might
be environmental /
nutritional
reasons for it happening. Info.
http://www.legalfund.org/
ADD site
(they do not mention Aspartame) http://www.attn-deficit-disorder.com/
CHADD site
- I do not like a site that (seemingly) tells me NOT to look any farther,
but I do
believe in
trying to post what people believe to be the other side. Personally,
they seem to be
like Alcoholic
Anonymous - saying that you are always recovering, or that it could be
genetic.
-for future-
The Guardian
UK - http://online.guardian.co.uk/
UK and some
National - Activist Database
http://www.urban75.com/Links/contacts.html
Current International
Legislation Links - http://www.essential.org/action/
and http://www.essential.org/El.html
Find out
who the major polluters in your area are, by zip code - http://www.scorecard.org
(New 28 Oct 98)
Off Topic??
- http://www.devvy.com/(New
31 Oct 98)
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6)
Chemical Checks
Lawyers -
This will some be a closed list - FOR FUTURE
Immune List
- http://www.consultclarity.com(New
23Oct 98)
AND - http://www.best.com/~immune(New
23Oct 98)
Chem. Checks
- There are different kinds - will be adding / rearanging this part
Fragrance In Products (some detrimental to your health)(New
24Oct 98)
Health
risks in perfume(New
30 Oct 98)This page gives a lot of key word
to search for too.
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7) Health
Mayo
Clinic Housecall - http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9808/htm/school.htm
OraMedia
(about dental health) - "for future"
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8)
History, Government, and Copyright Law
Copy right
law http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
The
new copy right laws that have gone into effect are going to take down the
spirit of the Internet as a method of International information, mainly
by putting a muzzle on our public libraries!
[Establishing intellectual property
boundaries for the Net is something
best left to courts, not special-interest
lobbyists cutting these sorts
of sleazy, anti-consumer backroom
deals. But neither the left nor the
right is saying this, or will
admit to it. --Declan] Check for added special provisions that are
just now being discussed (showing up) in those bland copyright laws.(New
02 Nov 98)
http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1998/10/30webcasts.asp
United States
Copyright Office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
(New 05 Nov 98)
Nolo Press
http://www.nolo.com(New 05 Nov 98)
Findlaw
http://www.findlaw.com(New 05 Nov
98)
Kuesterlaw
http://www.kuesterlaw.com(New 05
Nov 98)
HTML Writer
Guide http://www.hwg.org/resources/html/
TnCrimLaw's
Online Library - http://tncrimlaw.com/library.html
Help Return
The Law To A Learned Profession -
http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/burch_speech.html
The Civil
Bible - http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/
Books banned
at Freedoms Door - "for future"
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9)
More helps / links that I have looked at -- or books that I have read.
(New 24Oct 98)
(10) Sugar Blues by William Dufty (c)1993
by Warner Books Inc. NY
(20) Macrobiotic Cooking by Aveline Kushi
(c)1985 by Warner Books Inc. NY
(30) Saxon Math (future link)
(31) Bill and Mary Prides' set of HomeSchool
books(New 30 Oct 98)
(32) The Core Knowledge Series (preK-6) by
Doubleday NY
Each book covers that years (CORE) cooriculum, these are good books to
help learn or to
review with. My children will even read them on their own!(New
30 Oct 98)
(40) Money Doesn't Grow On Trees: A Parent's
Guide To Raising Financially Responsible Children
by Godfrey and Edwards (c)1994 Fireside NY
(50) The American Nation by John A. Garraty
(c)1998 by Addison-Wesley NY
(60) Psychology 4th edition by Carole Wade
& Carol Tavris (c)1996 Harper Collins NY
(70) 1984 by George Orwell (c)1981 Signet
Classic NY originally written 1949
(80) The Unauthorized Biography of George
Bush (for future)
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10)
Quotes
"When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade"
"It is better to be thought a fool, than to
open your mouth and remove all doubt" Abe Lincoln
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever." -Gandhi
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The answers seem as varied
as the people that give them. Yet, I have found that there is a definite
link between hyperactivity and chemical reactions. One of these is
described in Sweet Poison, -need a link to
formaldehyde in some furniture for this next area-.
Could this mean that if we use a type of elimination technique to see what
items might be affecting ourselves and our children, and while we try that
see if the elimination technique (of chemicals) has any effect on the amount
of medicine they require (if any) that we may be in for a surprise.
Could this have started during the time that many people were trying to
imply that much of what is / has happened to us is strictly genetic?
There are some children and adults that never seem to have "obvious" allergies or reactions to the things they eat. Still I know of no one that will not have a reaction to Ammonia if they are around it long enough, and anyone that has a swimming pool know that what acid can do. Up till now medical professionals seem to have believed that the blood / brain barrier would protect our brains from what happens to our bodies, research has shown this is not true. If there can be varied reactions and reaction times to something as common as ammonia, what of some of the other items in our environment?
ADD - ADHD - GIFTED = learning styles have been around for ages. What I take exception to is people saying that everyone should be a carbon copy "peer group" and that if the child or person does not get along where they are that they will not get along anywhere else. That they are locked in some kind of cage for life. If the effects of Ritalin are suppose to be different for adults and children, then this implys that there is change. . .(New 02 Nov 98)
Watch out for Aspartame
in toothpaste, and Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Sodium Laurath Sulfate in
shampoo, make sure they are from natural sources.
Then -- "Pyrethroid poisoning be made available
to the general public as a matter of urgency. The fact that these compounds
are being used as a head lice treatment for children is appalling." There
are links on this page where you are able to research these chemicals.(New
25Oct 98)
This
still is basically a rough draft. I am a student, that has a personal
interest in the use and abuse of drugs. Because of that personal
interest, the only way that I can justify the time spent putting this page
together is to use it as a reference on my scholarship applications.
There are more links that will be added in the future - they are somewhere
in my bookmark file(s), these are detailed as "for future" next to where
they will be placed. This will always be a page Under Construction,
I had to stop part of my life for my children's education, now it looks
as if that education will be my life.
aka The (Pied) Piper
Need
more url's for the harm that Canola (rapeseed) products can do, and for
the amount of DDT in whales. The counters
WERE having problems with the way that I have saved them, have repaired
them. I also will be relocating counters as soon as I get some more
pages blocked out. Thank You
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