What J.D. Vance’s sons are learning at school
From our US edition
In his book Communion, J.D. Vance confesses to being a “holy terror” in school. After one incident, in which he frescoed a wall with a crayon, the school pleaded with his mother to have him diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin. But she and his grandmother, his Mamaw, were skeptical: “‘He’s just a boy,’ said Mamaw. ‘That’s all that’s happening. He’s just a little shitheaded boy.’” At the Heights – the Catholic boys’ school where Vance has just enrolled his oldest child, nine-year-old Ewan – the policy is to let boys be. If students are naturally lively, loud and energetic, then simply stifling that energy goes against the school’s stated mission: forming “men fully alive.
