presentation response from the 26th

It wouldn't surprise me that someone suffering from clinical depression would under perform in school. It's a symptom of depression to lose interest in your everyday life. Besides who really likes doing all the busy work that we're required to do in school? Combine that with low levels of dopamine and serotonin and of course your not gonna want to do your work. Sadly the only current solution is just to give people a pill that makes them like mindless drones so that they can function.
Joey had an interesting topic about how pokemon are helping classrooms learn nowadays in ways that weren't available before their creation. Oh wait, i meant to say the internet and computers, not pokemon. Its true that these inventions have affected traditional education but I'd like to know if this has any connection with ADD. I remember reading an article that talked about if television and other types of new media condition kids to only pay attention for short periods of time.
As far as the 50's being full of media propaganda by the U.S. government. If you show me enough concrete evidence to support from memos of the people in charge with some kind of agenda then I'll believe it. But the whole conspiracy propaganda thing has been so overplayed that I just don't really have any interest in it anymore.