Is School Boring Or Is ADHD To Blame? by Jordyn White
School, noun: any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline. When asked what school is, high schoolers aren't likely to reply with the Webster-Merriam definition. In fact, many of them might respond with "school is prison" or something along those lines. I, myself, have never encountered this problem but there is a sad truth behind this-many high schoolers see school as something extraneous in the overall process of their education. In an annual survey taken by Indiana University , fewer than two percent of students responded that they never get bored in school. That means that ninety-eight percent of students are bored in class. This brings up a new question-are classes challenging enough or is it just student work ethic? Another point worth bringing up is the staggering increase in ADHD diagnoses throughout the decades. As shown by the data collected by th...