Seems like caffeine itself is basically not bad for kids beyond obvious stuff like keeping them from sleeping, suppressing appetite, coming in drinks with tons of sugar, etc.
What a horror story. I'm glad Erik is finally setting the record straight.
"It is a question of do schools fit the medical reality of teenagers?" he said.
An old post by Andrew Gelman on the whole "daughters make you a lefty" phenomena and how there is a potential bias introduced by the fact that having children is made of intermediate outcomes. Something that might be addressed with multilevel hierarchical models (no surprise coming from Gelman, I suppose).