A recently completed study assessed attention skills in 2,000 elementary school children and followed them for 16 years (Pingault et al, 2011). Children with attention problems when they were six years old were 7.6 times more likely than their classmates to never graduate from high school. This poor attention group included 17% of the study population. Failure to graduate from high school is associated with underemployment, unemployment, drug use and jail time. Current estimates are that approximately 7-10% of elementary-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD. Childhood ADHD is similarly associated with many of the same undesirable long term outcomes. In some schools, attention problems are even more common. In all schools, children with attention problems require disproportionate teacher time and can affect the learning environment for all children in the classroom.