<p>I've been informed that using ADD drugs to help you focus during the test is pretty common. Is this something that people at your school do? What do you think are the pros and cons to this?</p>
<p>Adderall is an amphetamine closely related to meth amphetamine. aka Crystal Meth.</p>
<p>Anyway I think it’s a sign of how ****ed up the education system is when drugs are needed to simply do well on tests.</p>
<p>agreed. Its a sad thing. What else do people think? is it not as common as I thought?</p>
<p>I know of one person who used it at my school, SATs though.</p>
<p>bumpp. ACTs just happened. Who heard about people who used them/ used them themselves? Did it help? worth it?</p>
<p>I know a couple people who will do it on a different test date, but most people I know tend to stay away from it.</p>
<p>It’s mainly the more affluent districts in our area where you see students who use this drug to perform better on tests. Our schools and the families around here are pretty poor (well, beyond poor at this point XD) so it’s unlikely that the students in our district even have the money (or brains) to think of using Adderall.</p>
<p>But you know about t Kanan. so by your logic you have a brain. whats your opinion of it? Detrimental to Education, or Education’s future?</p>
<p>I never said I had a brain. It’s in my opinion that the majority of the core students in our schools don’t care about their education. Our school has been under-performing for years already and the students don’t seem to care very much. Their reaction to standardized testing (which funds our district) is indifference – those are the two days where they can just sit back, relax, and pretend is a day off. They don’t perform to the best of their abilities because of their attitude. If they had a decent amount of intelligence, would they not at least try to do well on those tests so our schools can receive more funding? In addition, with our state owing the public schools millions of dollars, what do those students believe is the best way to fight for their education? A walkout to protest something they know nothing about because they don’t even bother going to the district board meetings. Whose actions are more detrimental to education? Who is hurting his/her own future?
And plus, majority of the core students (which make up most of our school’s student population) don’t even know what Adderall is. I’m not even positive that all the Honors and AP students know either.</p>
<p>And you make such a well-spoken argument when you forget to type in certain words and ignore proper punctuation.</p>
<p>Lol some kid today at testing was like (not talking to me)</p>
<p>"Dude you trying on this thing?</p>
<p>“Yeah, but if I get to something I dont know, it’s not like I waste more than a min on it”</p>
<p>“haha yeah… I just filled in all As.”</p>
<p>“… okay.?”</p>
<p>Mhm thats indifference right there.</p>
<p>I’m sure 95% of the students at my school don’t know what Adderall is. </p>
<p>And we have the same indifference too. Right before we started the ACT I heard:</p>
<p>“Are you going to try on this test?”</p>
<p>“Not if the question is too hard. I’m going to beauty school. They don’t care about ACT scores.”</p>
<hr>
<p>“I fell asleep on the science section”</p>
<p>“Yeah I did too”</p>
<p>-_-</p>
<p>An acquaintance of mine is a massive druggie…we had a huge discussion about drugs and their effects and he actually knows more about chemicals and their composition than I do and I’ve taken AP Chemistry while he’s in the lowest level Earth Sciences class. Anyways, in our discussion he mentioned that he once took Ritalin for the ACT a couple times and said it helped him focus much more and increased his score by a couple points. The drawback was that it was hell coming off the Ritalin effects…he couldn’t sleep for days and was puking all the while…</p>
<p>Kanan, I’m not making an argument. I didn’t mean for that to be sarcastic. I’m just asking for some insight. and I appreciate it. I can spell and use proper punctuation, but in all honesty, sometimes my keyboard gets a little stuck or slows down. You sound like you live in Illinois based on the difficulty obtaining school funding. My school struggles to get the test scores that represent its student’s intelligent level. Just like you, it instead gets their laziness level. </p>
<p>Its a shame people are indifferent towards education, but we are all just very different. Personally, I may not be truly satisfied with my life until I become a public figure. This drives me to work hard at school, be active, and always do my best. Those without my ambition may strive to have a different career that doesn’t recommend a prestigious college. Those people will find happiness much easier than I. And I respect that.</p>
<p>Well then I apologize for being overprotective from misinterpreting your previous statement. And yes, I do reside in Illinois. The main reason why I’m so sensitive to the subject is because I feel as if the students (especially the Juniors) are being extremely selfish when they don’t at least attempt to give the tests their full attention. As Juniors, the scores may not affect them as much when it comes to school funding, but it does affect the underclassmen and the incoming freshman (et cetera). But perhaps that’s just my way of thinking because it was the way I was taught. </p>
<p>And I wish you the best on your future endeavors</p>
<p>I can report to you that adderall is a massive problem at my school, which is an upper class school. I know that other similar schools around have the same sort of situation. If a student isnt performing up to par, be it in middle school or high school, his parents take him to get add tested. The kid can obviously pass the tests, you just have to act easily distracted. Once a doctor tells you that you have add, he prescribes you adderall. Literally 90-95% of my friends take adderall for finals/sats, and about half take it regularly. I can tell you that it is very easy to identify those who take it on a regular basis, because they are often without emotion and find it hard to be “happy” so to say. I know a number of students who became depressed after starting adderall, and the hunt always seems to be on for these students in regards to finding the “new” add drug that works better than adderall. A lot of the students who take adderall for finals/sats buy it off their friends who are prescribed it, and they do report back a very focused mindset in both their studying and actual taking of the test. However, having never tried it (more of a moral thing for me…) I can’t give you a solid answer as to its effects. People consider those who abuse adderall to be academic “cheaters”, as they are given an unfair advantage. I did make higher sats and maintain a higher GPA than all of the adderall users, thought, and there is a very odd yet strikingly high correlation between the regular adderall users and the regular drug abusers.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t want to be accepted to college knowing that I had used a drug in order to get a higher SAT/ACT. It’s unfair and immoral.</p>
<p>Adderall isn’t too common for test taking around here, but there are tons of other legal stimulants that people use. Caffeine honestly isn’t all that innocent… and ephedrine is found in many OTC diet pills, it’s also effective as a CNS stimulant. </p>
<p>However, people I know who utilize Adderall for test taking/writing papers find that it makes them more focused, they can get more accomplished in a shorter time, etc… I don’t see a huge problem with students using it every now and then, when they need to do their absolute best, when there are people who take it every day and don’t need it.</p>
<p>Did anyone see the ‘60 Minutes’ special from Katie Couric on students using Adderall? For me, it is just so unfortunate and eye opening to how common it is.</p>