attention deficit disorder

There is no such thing as a child having an attention deficit disorder since the child is always attending to something. It is only when we want him to attend to what he is not attending to that a problem seems to arise.  But it is our problem.  It is not the child’s problem that he is not interested in what his parents and teachers want him to be.  Is it a disorder to not pay attention to what doesn’t interest you?  In school, the answer to this question is “yes.”  Instead of schools taking responsibility for their irrelevance to their student’s lives, they blame the students by creating an imaginary illness called ADHD.