On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:58:43 -0600, BlueBrooke wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:15:22 +1300, Miche > wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> BlueBrooke > wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:01:45 -0600, Sqwertz >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:25:15 -0800 (PST), wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> How come when I was growing up, I was born in 1965, you never heard of
>>> >> a single kid who was allergic to peanuts, no one was lactose
>>> >> intolerant, and no one was allergic to gluten, yet alone know what
>>> >> gluten was unless you were a baker?
>>>
>>> Good question. They didn't all have ADD back then, either.
>>
>>Yes, they did. It just went untreated.
>>
>>Miche
>
> Sorry, but I'm not buying that. If that was the case, the classrooms
> -- which had 30 or more students in them, not the 1:15 teacher:student
> ratio that seems to be required now --

um, where would this be? it might be thought a good thing, but i know of
no school system where it is 'required.' certainly not any public school.

your pal,
blake