This thread is permanently archived
German schools make ADHD kids wear heavy sand-filled vests to keep them calm on their seats
| Advocates of the vests, which cost between €140 and €170(£124 – £150), say they have witnessed a remarkable change in behaviour in many of the children who have worn them, claiming the heavy vests help to curb children’s restlessness.
A growing number of children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) each year in Germany, as elsewhere. Schools that use the vests argue they are an uncomplicated way of tackling the phenomenon head on,
| ..and a gentler and less complicated form of therapy than drugs such as Ritalin.
“Children love to wear the vests and no one is forced into wearing one against their will,” claimed Gerhild de Wall, head of the inclusion unit at the Grumbrechtstrasse school in the Harburg district of Hamburg, which has been one of the sand vest pioneers.
| But critics say the vests are reminiscent of straitjackets used to constrain violent patients in psychiatric hospitals, and are in danger of stigmatising their wearers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/20/use-of-sand-vests-to-calm-children-with-adhd-sparks-concern
http://archive.is/zuWQB
| "...reminiscent of straitjackets used to constrain violent patients in psychiatric hospital..."
Well, that's how I feel in school anyway.
| MUMMY I NEED TO RUN AROUND THE ROOM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
| Damn this is cool, I hope the sand vest kiddos get extremely buff because of the extra weight they have to carry.
| wtf i want a sand vest now, summerbody 2018. Hope the kids dont get spine problems or some shit though.
| Kill those oppressors ADHD is a real condition and should be properly treated, not mitigated by means of torture
| Sounds like child torture. No shit little kids don't want to sit in a chair for 12 hrs a day, if you don't get this why did you make teaching kids your job?
| I severely doubt the kids wear them willingly, I doubt even more that it calms them down, I grew up along side people with mental issues and I can tell you the one thing they hate the most, is to be restrained in any form, then again this is the same country that turns a blind eye to the increasing crime done by an immigrant statistic, they're probably just ignoring any children experiencing discomfort wearing these restraints
| >>122355
Where do you live that children in your area sit for 12 hours on a chair? That is indeed insane and you should call the police for child abuse.
| I have ADHD and I can attest that most of us hate to be restrained and the ones who do only like because it's their fetish
| >>123047 They do that because they are afraid of an increase in racism. They kinda have a funny past with that sorta stuff...
| >>124318
Yeah, their fear is ruining the country tbh, someone needs to inspire the Germans to stand up for themselves, and get rid of merkal
| Is this at all related to the weighted blankets that are super popular right now?
| I'm pretty sure that ADHD is inflationary diagnosed for a couple of reasons:
- lazy psychologists
- greedy pharmacists
- unresponsible parents and/or the rotten society they live in.
Its one of this typical 1st world problems like depression and wealth-squalidness (Saying me, also having depressions).
To the topic: instead of stupid vests these overpowered kids need some kind of hard drill and/or exhausting sports. They have to learn that they're not the center of the universe.
| >>126180 you're one of those inconsiderate people who think every problem that doesn't concern you is actually fake or futile because all the matters is having things your way you heartless bitch
Hope you die while being forced to do a drill on an exhausting sport you fucker
| >>126190
I don't believe in Problems that don't concern me. But I believe that diffrent problems have diffrent weight and some of them even have none since they are imagined (which actually can be problem itself, like some kind of self fulfying prophecy.)
>you heartless bitch
>Hope you die while being forced to do a drill on an exhausting sport you fucker
Well that's a classical double standard, isn't it?
| >>124386 Rise of the fourth reich! jk, what is wrong with people nowadays? Does adhd has some medical proves? If so then could they please define a normal person
This thread is permanently archived
|
German schools are increasingly asking unruly and hyperactive children to wear heavy sand-filled vests in an effort to calm them and keep them on their seats, despite the misgivings of some parents and psychiatrists.
The controversial sand vests weigh between 1.2 and six kilograms (2.7 – 13Ib) and are being used by 200 schools across Germany.