A story that appeared yesterday in the BBC News just floored me. Testing is a pretty hot topic on the education debate market, and this is more fuel for the fire. Wow... the lengths people will go. Parents are giving their children internet-bought Anti-hyperactivity medicines like Ritalin, to boost their performance on tests.
"We are moving into a phase now where informed parents can by-pass the medical profession, go online and prescribe the drug themselves."
Wow. Think about the health risks, the danger of purchasing drugs over the internet, the disregard for medical expertise, and the growing competitiveness of educational achievement.
"In our culture, educational attainment is valued so highly. People sell their houses to get near a school or lie about where they live to get a child into a school... It's a distorted value in our culture. So anything a parent can do to get some kind of educational advantage - they will do it."
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