We have to stop insisting on creating intense aversions to precisely the things we want children to do/care about
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In my dream school, anyone who says "stay on task" will have to go sit in the corner & think about what they've done
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Interesting. Ability to stay on task is an incredibly valuable life skill, one that my unmedicated ADHD prevents me from mastering, unfortunately.
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The ability to stay on task *unsupervised* is an incredibly valuable life skill, & I think externalizing the rewards & punishments related to maintaining focus is a very risky move — particularly with children, who overall work with implicit motivation very well when permitted
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(what if while thinking about what they've done, they get distracted by something else... would somebody have to tell them to... stay on task)
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As someone who wasn't diagnosed with ADHD 'till half-way through college, this would have been my ideal school.
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