Career Confidential: Parents won’t explore ADHD diagnosis. Is the teacher right to push it?

Abstract

Phyllis Fagell offers work advice to teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. In this column, a teacher seeks advice on what to do when parents won’t seek an ADHD diagnosis for a student who shows signs of the condition, and a principal who is frustrated at their job wants help figuring out whether to leave.

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Workplace advice schools teacher principal career ADHD parents diagnosis conflict resign frustration

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