<p>Girls with ADHD are under diagnosed. It’s not uncommon for girls with the primarily in attentive variety to make it to junior year in HS without the assistance boys get. We tend to diagnose based on how it effects others and not the kid. That said, boys are probably over diagnosed. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if our schools are serving either sex particularly well at this point, personally. However the latest craze of social programs inside schools has watered down the educational mission too much, IMHO. The teachers need to be freed up to teach the basics. To boys and to girls. The food/social justice/clothing/social worker missions have taken over what ought to be the primary purpose of teaching. I think this makes the teachers jobs impossible. JMO. </p>
<p>We are asking too many extraneous things of our schools This is confusing things enough that teachers are at odds with stuff they shouldn’t even have to think about. If all they had to worry about is how well Johnny is learning to write and not how well he is sitting still and getting along with Sally, it would be better for all concerned.</p>