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Keeping Johnny Quiet
I doubt that there is a schoolteacher who hasn't at some time wished for a magic formula to quiet an overactive child in his classroom. Well, it seems to some that the formula has arrived, but it's not so magic. In fact, it has been in use for ten years or more, but its use is just now coming to light. Where a child is found to be "hyperactive," a doctor prescribes a drug that keeps him calm and supposedly makes him a better learner. The "underactive" child, too, is given a drug to stimulate his responses to what the teacher is teaching. Realizing that one or two offbeat youngsters in a classroom can greatly increase the teacher's work load, teachers more and more are asking that these drugs be administered.
This is a situation that calls for more wisdom than can be expressed through righteous indignation. The problem exists because teachers want help and because parents, recognizing that one child's disruption of a room takes away from what the other children gain, are giving their consent. This is not something that is being done thoughtlessly. Dangers are seen. The presence of unknown factors is recognized, but where the procedure is being followed, the balance between negative factors and positive results appears in the eyes of those making the decisions to be on the side of the positive.

June 12, 1971 issue
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Prayer Is Always Answered
BETTY REISS
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Right Relationships
KURT GLADHORN
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A Single Command
CHRISTINE HARRISON
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There's Jam in Your House, Too
BARBARA JOY HENDERSON
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Utilizing Divine Power
RONALD GRAY WALKER
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Nothing to Lose but Limitation
KATHERINE J. HAMMERSLEY
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UPWARD WAY
Cynthia Häfeli-Wells
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Lessons from Tanya
ELLEN SHANK COLLINS
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Keeping Johnny Quiet
Carl J. Welz
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Important Points in the Healing Work
Alan A. Aylwin
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Mary Baker Eddy comments (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 194),...
Melvin A. Erickson
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It is with deep gratitude for Christian Science...
Constance E. Pegum
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It is with heartfelt gratitude and love to God for all the good that...
Helen Mai with contributions from Dorothy Kruse, Betty Jane Wallin, Mary Ann Norris, Robert E. Norris, E. Bernice Wood
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Louis Spilman, Harold Blake Walker