The sit-down-and-shut-up drugs

So we have drug-free school zones, but the funny part about that is, there are kids who are on medication for so-called ADHD and whatever other label.  I took my son out of a regular public school because they were trying to talk me into getting him medicated.  I said NO, and said I'm homeschooling him, and they were like "you don't have to do that."  (Why not?  Is it true that schools get more funding for kids on medication?  I know it is in other places, just don't know about Ohio.  If it is true, then my son's a cash cow that's just gone dry on them.)

Well, I am, and I did.  He's now enrolled in OHDELA, which is an Internet-based school.  He likes it a lot better.  Apparently in a regular school, he's what's known as a "sympathetic crier"--one kid gets upset, so do other kids, including him.  That is NOT the ideal setting!  At church, he's with "normal" kids and so he sees what you're supposed to act like (is it any wonder that he's been a lot better-behaved in church than at school?).  He is in church with me 3-4 times a week.  He goes to Sunday school and enjoys it, and he's with other kids his age on Wednesday nights as well.  Then there's Reformers Unanimous, a Christ-centered addictions program, and their Kidz Club, which he enjoys.  I typically run the sound booth there, something I do enjoy, and I get a lot out of the program.  So he's socializing with other kids about three days a week.

He is a lot calmer now and he's being challenged more with the curriculum, though he's in special education.  He also goes to a chiropractor (I've since found out his spine is a bit out of whack, which can cause issues with behavior).  He gets D3/K2 supplements (D3 deficiency can also cause issues with behavior).  And he's not eating the junk that schools serve up for breakfast and lunch--I have more control over his diet.  His typical breakfast now is scrambled eggs and a piece of cinnamon-raisin toast (sprouted grain bread) with grass-fed butter--and the drops of D3/K2.  Quite a far cry from French toast sticks and stuff that passes for syrup!  He also enjoys his "soaking bath," as he calls it--which is an Epsom salt bath.  Epsom salt, if you don't know, is magnesium sulfate.  The magnesium is great for calming kids on the autism spectrum (it's good for anyone) and the sulfate helps with bowel function--which can also help with behavior.  I ask does it help him calm down and he says yes.  So I've taken him from an environment that does him almost no good, I'm giving him healthier food, and he's seeing a chiropractor.  Sure it's a bit more effort, but I am NOT okay with taking the easy way out and drugging him.  Those drugs have some nasty side effects--including DEATH.  I am NOT going to risk my son's health or LIFE just to make someone's job easier.