research paper introduction

yes I know it's 1 am and yes I know I'm missing my sources. I'm not sure where to put them in yet but considering we need to fill up 5 more pages after this draft and knowing I'll probably reorganize my paper a few more times, I'm probably better off putting them in them later on

When I was in sixth grade, my best friend Austin and I would spend hours a day playing online video games. He is extremely talented at computer programming, and at age 12, he would spend hours a day sitting at his desk, typing away in hypertext markup language, or HTML, to create his own online gaming servers, and coding plugins and mods from scratch. That’s similar to what Cisco Systems pays my dad tens of thousands of dollars a year to do. In other words, my friend Austin was extremely talented. But unfortunately, his talents have been ignored by the education system. Austin suffers from the learning deficiency ADD, or Attention Deficit Disorder, which plagues its victims with a low attention span. Throughout middle and high school, Austin found that he was being less engaged in class, particularly in classes that he was required to take, but had no particular understanding of; and even in his CTE classes, he found himself seldom engaged in his learning. By our junior year in high school, he was paying me two or three times a week to let him nap in the backseat of my car so he wouldn’t have to go to class. Many would probably judge him as someone of little intelligence. But truthfully, he is extremely intelligent; he simply suffered under an education system that fails to accommodate those who suffer from learning disabilities. This dilemma progresses every year across the country: kids with learning disabilities struggle to grasp what they’re being taught, whether they don’t understand the curriculum or they don’t learn well in a particular setting. The reason? The education system has become too standardized, as it now teaches kids a very narrow spectrum of skills that appealed to American society of the past, but are not of as much use in the present. Students who struggle in these fields, particularly students with learning disabilities, are testing poorly, giving off the idea that they lack intelligence, when in reality, their intelligence lies more prominently in other fields.