The 10 priorities

There is an interesting column today on the "trap" of labeling our kids:

Labeling children may begin in early childhood, and within the public school and medical communities, diagnoses have become widespread to the point of spawning hundreds of support sites online for parents of children who may have ADD, ADHD, ODD, ASP... The list goes on and grows every day. More recently, attributes like weight and even shyness have been brought into the potential 'disorder' arena.

Malcom Gauld, president of Hyde Schools, has an interesting set of priorities that focus away from labeling and toward a "character culture. Read it all.

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