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>No, they tend to do fine right away.
If you ignore how they're prepped for schooling at home by their parents, and pre-school, and kindergarten, and how that all forces kids to quickly adapt into the classroom mindset and behavior patterns expected of them once they reach first grade and have to sit still and focus for hours at a time. The fact that most kids adapt into this structure does not mean they should be in it in the first place. Again, it's just defining the most easily broken people as sane and defining natural behavior in people who aren't as easily broken as mental illness.

>Not sure why you're citing YA novelists as if they have any meaningful insight to offer on human psychology.
Because the point being made is relevant and apparent if you actually look out at the world critically. It doesn't matter who says something if it's true.

>Yeah, because under-performing students are generally the ones that get involved in trades.
That's a perfectly self-fulfilling prophecy, though. No one ever looks at a kid and says, "You're real good at math and science, you'd make an excellent electrician." Kids are taught to look down on trades as a failure condition, so then naturally only the kids who fail end up in trades.

>That's why they tend to get paid less, too. They offer less value to society.
Neither of these points are even true (though "less" is highly context-sensitive). Tradespeople make good money and offer lots of value to society, and the fact that people think they don't just illustrates my exact point: People who are unable to focus on classroom work but can focus on physical work are labeled ADHD and "fixed" with medication so they don't fall to the lowly trades.

>The side effects are generally mild and lessen as the patient adjusts to the medication. Very rarely are they any cause for concern.
So, yes, I was right. See pic related from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ritalin-effects#Serious-side-effects