Who gets to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder, and who gets left out? You can probably guess the
answer. A 2014 study by Paul L. Morgan, Ph.D., director of the
Center of Educational Disparities Research at Penn State, published in the
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that, among
kindergarteners in the United States, Black children are 70 percent less
likely to receive an official ADHD diagnosis than their white classmates.
Fast-forward to high school, specifically tenth grade, and white children are
roughly twice as likely to have already received an ADHD diagnosis (and
subsequent treatment) than their Black classmates, who are more likely to
be disciplinarily removed from their classrooms for having “emotional
disturbances...
"As someone who does work in reproductive justice, I believe in education being the start. Texas is a traditionally conservative and very Christian state, so comprehensive sex education is almost nonexistent. A lot of what is still taught here is very minimal and abstinence-based..."
