School just doesn’t suit for some kids. I always found some way to get out of it and barely showed up in 5th or 6th year, but studied on my own and scraped through the exams. Went to uni, had an incredibly successful career. Might have just killed myself if I couldn’t skip like I did.
Let them handle it however works best for their kids, no?
Wonder if there’s something obvious being omitted here
My daughter missed 90% of the last school year. She suffers from autism and it affects her extremely badly.
To physically drag her into school would result in incredible harm to her mental health.
We have letters from all the medical professionals who have dealt with her (e.g. CAMHS etc) have said that her attendance issues are a direct result of her autism. I have given up working to be her full-time carer and try to encourage her to learn at home. To say that me and my wife are very stressed out about this would be a massive understatement.
We met with the Tusla education welfare officer a few weeks ago and their attitude was to say that we aren’t punishing our daughter enough for not attending school. The fact that they didn’t understand that was the worst possible thing you could do to an autistic child speaks volumes about the levels of training provided to Tusla employees.
I know we could switch to home schooling and that would get Tusla off our backs, but we strongly believe that getting our daughter into regular schooling is better for her. Sadly, we aren’t getting the supports we need to do that.
Basically what I’m saying is Tudla clueless about individual situations, particularly where there is a neurodivergence issue. They are supposed to be the state body that understands children, but the reality is that they don’t.
I don’t know what is going on in this particular familys case. Maybe the parents don’t give a shit, but also maybe that they are dealing with a child with mental health or neurodivergence issues. Just don’t be too quick to judge.
Not sure it really tells the full story… rarely as clear cut as just “not sending the kids to school”..
Problems with the child, school, Principal, teachers, learning, behaviour difficulties, … so many things can effect getting some kids through the door and usually there is little support for parents. Plus Yep, problems at home can be a cause…
But counting days doesn’t work until you address the problem
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That’ll show them…
That’s an understatement.
-€10 off their dole for every day missed
Only 20% to go!
All they need to do is home school them!
The anti-Enoch
School just doesn’t suit for some kids. I always found some way to get out of it and barely showed up in 5th or 6th year, but studied on my own and scraped through the exams. Went to uni, had an incredibly successful career. Might have just killed myself if I couldn’t skip like I did.
Let them handle it however works best for their kids, no?
Wonder if there’s something obvious being omitted here
My daughter missed 90% of the last school year. She suffers from autism and it affects her extremely badly.
To physically drag her into school would result in incredible harm to her mental health.
We have letters from all the medical professionals who have dealt with her (e.g. CAMHS etc) have said that her attendance issues are a direct result of her autism. I have given up working to be her full-time carer and try to encourage her to learn at home. To say that me and my wife are very stressed out about this would be a massive understatement.
We met with the Tusla education welfare officer a few weeks ago and their attitude was to say that we aren’t punishing our daughter enough for not attending school. The fact that they didn’t understand that was the worst possible thing you could do to an autistic child speaks volumes about the levels of training provided to Tusla employees.
I know we could switch to home schooling and that would get Tusla off our backs, but we strongly believe that getting our daughter into regular schooling is better for her. Sadly, we aren’t getting the supports we need to do that.
Basically what I’m saying is Tudla clueless about individual situations, particularly where there is a neurodivergence issue. They are supposed to be the state body that understands children, but the reality is that they don’t.
I don’t know what is going on in this particular familys case. Maybe the parents don’t give a shit, but also maybe that they are dealing with a child with mental health or neurodivergence issues. Just don’t be too quick to judge.
Not sure it really tells the full story… rarely as clear cut as just “not sending the kids to school”..
Problems with the child, school, Principal, teachers, learning, behaviour difficulties, … so many things can effect getting some kids through the door and usually there is little support for parents. Plus Yep, problems at home can be a cause…
But counting days doesn’t work until you address the problem