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creates an image you are defective which can lead to low self-esteem, hinder progress and worse become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Psychologists and Sociologists are aware of this problem so why is labeling the differences on the increase? Please view this very informative article, which discusses 'educational authorities' desire for labels and the harm they do.

http://www.allkindsofminds. org/documents/Oct%2018%202004% 20The%20harm%20we%20do%20when% 20we%20label%20our%20children. pdf

This world is made up of a great many different people and necessarily so. As well as academics, we also need practical, creative, physical people to do those jobs that require, strength, passion, single mindedness, leadership, and courage. Yet if we try to create a personality' type that all children adhere to, the diversity of character required to fulfill those many different roles will disappear and we will be left with a group of people who can only perform a single function. Diversity is a good thing, even if it does put pressure on educational services to accommodate the different learning styles! I am very wary of the popularity of labels being attached to what was previously a case of 'not having an aptitude' for a particular subject.

I have a book on ODD (oppositional deviant disorder) and I have to say after reading it, that it describes most teenagers I knew as a teenager myself. All of who are now healthy, functioning adults. Their parenting and peers is what greatly affected the direction their 'attitude' problem took, or their hormones merely settled down as they became older.

Children who are always 'good' and follow any adult's instruction may make the adults lives easier but what of that child when they become an adult? As adults are they able to think for themselves or are they equally easily led by peers and government who may wish to impose unhealthy life styles upon them. Independence is a good thing and needs to be carefully directed rather than stamped out all together.

Different teaching methods in all subjects can show improvement as we all have different ways in which we process information. One of the reasons boys are no longer doing so well in schools is that the education method is now more geared towards a female style of learning than a males.

But if we are not careful rather than recognize the need for a different teaching method, we will start labeling boys (who are not effeminate) as having some educational deficit. What we need here is greater variety

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