Not all have ADHD

My son is eight and goes to a North Swindon school. Almost every day there’s an issue with ‘fidget toys’.

Some children are allowed to use them in assembly, some are not. Some can use them all day throughout lessons, others cannot

There has to be a letter from the parents telling the school their child needs a fidget toy otherwise the child isn’t allowed.

I cannot believe our schools are now full of such pathetic rubbish. Have we really now got to the stage where dozens of children in every year at primary school have ADHD (or whatever the latest made-up invented condition is)?

The teachers would have us believe our children all have attention problems, behavioural problems and emotional problems of one kind or another. No, they haven’t. They are all suffering from IDGAD - I Don’t Give A Damn - because they know they can misbehave, refuse to listen, refuse to behave and do their work and there’s nothing their teachers can do about it.

Isn’t it funny that when there were still proper punishment in our schools and at home these conditions simply didn’t exist?

There have always been naughty children. There will always be those who loathe every minute of every lesson. Simply saying they have a ‘condition’ and letting them use that excuse is not the answer.

Roger Lack

North Swindon

Nothing ambiguous

I despair whenever I read or hear politicians saying the EU Referendum was only advisory, or that the question as framed didn’t cover leaving the Customs Union or/and Single Market.

I have read and re-read the leaflet put out by the Government and delivered to every household in the UK and it is crystal clear on two important things.

The first is when it states unequivocally “The referendum on Thursday, 23rd June is your chance to decide if we should remain in or leave the European Union” and the second when its concluding statement assures the voting public “This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide.”

There is nothing ambiguous about either statement. They are perfectly plain, and couldn’t be any clearer.

The Prime Minister, the Government and Parliament were as one in affirming the result of the Referendum would be honoured; and if the vote had gone the way the pollsters, politicians, civil servants and EU bureaucrats thought it would, you can be sure there would have been champagne corks popping as everyone celebrated a ‘good, cleanly fought campaign’.

Regrettably for some the people had other ideas and, despite warnings of various dire consequences which would befall the nation, in a vote which attracted the highest ever turnout, people from across the political spectrum confounded the experts by voting to leave the EU. Which bit of the word ‘leave’ is difficult to understand?

Des Morgan

Caraway Drive,

Swindon