| Despite the potentially dangerous side-effects of | | | | resort to compulsion to get their students by |
| Ritalin, some public school authorities now pressure | | | | force, so they apply the same compulsion against |
| parents to give Ritalin to their children so these | | | | children and their parents to pressure parents into |
| kids won't "act up" in school. | | | | giving Ritalin to their kids. |
| Naturally, most parents don't want to drug their | | | | How do schools pressure parents? They threaten |
| children just because they are unruly, bored in | | | | to expel the child, hold the child back a grade, put |
| class, or high-spirited. However, compulsory | | | | the child into a special-education class, or threaten |
| attendance laws force parents to send their | | | | the parents with prosecution for child abuse. |
| children to public schools. Just as school authorities | | | | |