Quotes from an article by, Peter Gray, Ph.D., at Psychology Today:

From an evolutionary perspective, school is an abnormal environment...
School is a place where children are expected to spend most of their time sitting quietly in chairs, listening to a teacher talk about things that don't particularly interest them, reading what they are told to read, writing what they are told to write, and feeding memorized information back on tests

For good evolutionary reasons, members of our species vary genetically in ways that create diversity in personality.[6] People have always lived in communities, and communities--as well as the individuals within them--benefit from diversity. It is good that some people are relatively restrained while others are more impulsive, that some are relatively passive while others are more active, that some are cautious while others are bolder, and so on. These are among the dimensions that make up normal personality.


Read the complete article here:
ADHD and School: The Problem of Assessing Normalcy in an Abnormal Environment


I would like to see the day when we see “kids with ADHD” as normal members of our diverse community rather than labeling them as disabled, and medicating them so they will fit into the abnormal environments we have created.