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Armed with her bias, a tape recorder and what was to prove to be a subversive sense of humor, Mary set out for the war zone of sex education-Anaheim, Calif. Somewhere in the Neverland of Orange County, trapped by flak from every side, Mary grew up. She got her education not only in sex but in the politics of the public schools and in the slightly mad ways Americans define and propagandize their moral values...
...shadow of the Disneyland Matterhorn, Mary slipped out her tape recorder and notebooks and listened while the Anaheim Pros and Antis talked. And talked! In 1969, the pioneering Family Life and Sex Education Program, which Anaheim had introduced into its schools, was the major local topic...
...Black Panther Huey Newton's release from prison. Police ended the party with tear gas. In Oklahoma, hundreds tried to attend a banned rock festival in Turner Falls Park. Worried about "drugs, nudity, free love and lawlessness," Governor Dewey Bartlett blocked the kids with 300 National Guardsmen. In Anaheim, Calif., about 300 garishly garbed Yippies "liberated" Disneyland. Before the cops arrived, the raiders hoisted a Viet Cong flag atop a fort on Tom Sawyer's Island and yowled slogans like "Free Mickey Mouse...
...maddening problem to his parents and his teachers. He could not concentrate, would not learn in nursery school and the early years of elementary school. But in the last year Jeremy, now ten, has been earning A's and B's in his classes at Anaheim, Calif. The difference is that now, before every breakfast and lunch and after school during the academic year, Jeremy takes a pale green tablet of Ritalin, the trade name for methylphenidate, a mild stimulant...
Since 1957, many pediatric psychiatrists have espoused drug treatment for other learning disabilities. Anaheim's Dr. Adler is consultant for seven Orange County school districts in which he helps to screen children and to recommend treatment. He treats 2,000 children in his private practice. Not all respond to drugs as dramatically as Jeremy did, he cautions, but most of them do so much better than before that he keeps them on Ritalin or an equivalent drug throughout the school year. After about two years, Adler arbitrarily decreases the dosage during the summer vacation, hoping that new habit patterns...