Wow. The only thing this psychologist should be noted for is his idiocy.
If I rewarded my DD7 for picking up a fork, she'd roll her eyes at me, and say, "What? It's JUST A FORK!" Then she'd wonder why I have such low expectations of her, and launch into a spiral of self-doubt and loathing. Because after all... it's just a fork.
Last week I helped the 11th grader across the street with her math homework. Yep, I enabled her. In this case, I enabled her to finish the assignment on her own and learn something. Bad me, right?
His observation that "90% of the kids get this, the rest we send for medication" speaks to a horrible confirmation bias... if this doesn't work, it's not because the system is flawed, it's because the kid is. Someone managed to graduate with a science degree without learning how to science.
I could go on, and on...
