If you read the article, “they” is the Council; not the school.
We don’t have the funding or the provisions to help kids most at need and sometimes it is the parents’ fault.
We have a child joining us this week in Year 7 that we’re totally unequipped and trained to deal with. They should be going to a special school but their parents have insisted mainstream. I’m dreading Tuesday. They literally cannot read, write, or add 1+1 together. They don’t know when their own birthday is. Their psychologists and Primary School SEND specialists even said they’ll never ever be able to read or write. I’m at a loss. I’ll be working with this child every day and I’m being paid minimum wage.
I feel so sorry for this father but he’s blaming the Council and school for no reason. They’re not the ones to blame.
> Jack has ended up attending five schools in five years. They repeatedly failed to provide him with the dedicated one-to-one support he needs to successfully transition to a new environment – provision the council is legally required to secure.
Jack is the sort of child who ruins the learning of other pupils. In a completely insufficient and broken teaching system it is important to remember there is nothing that can be done. Kid just needs to keep getting excluded until he is so disaffected he roams the street and stabs someone and everyone can shout *WHERE WERE THE PARENTS*
Imagine trying to make the public give a fuck about SEN funding? In this country? Trying to explain this issue to the average Briton? Good luck.
It sounds like this kid needs specialist SEND schooling – he’s also old enough that he’s got a pretty small window before he’s out of children’s provision completely, and will get v little. Yes, the council do want these families to “just go away” because specialist schooling is expensive, but this kid is going to get eaten alive in mainstream education if he needs a lot of 1:1 support.
We don’t even provide proper help for disabled kids anymore? Fuck this island.
I had a child like this in my class when I was teaching. She had a chromosomal abnormality unique to her that resulted in something similar to Down’s Syndrome. It meant it was like having a toddler in a class of Year Two children. She needed one to one support, but so did two other kids who could participate in class if they had the support this girl had. Her parents were hoping she would get to Year Four and then leave (her older sister and only friend was two years older than her), so the school was determined to fill that wish. The problem was that she could not keep up with the other kids and basically needed her own lesson plan for everything, it was also obvious that the loss of free play all afternoon had a massive effect on her wellbeing. She was just not capable of lasting in mainstream education and should have been in the local special needs school. She was a nice kid but she demanded all your attention and that came at the expense of the other children in the class. It is why special needs schools are so important for everyone, those with special needs get the proper education they deserve and the rest of the class gets more attention from teachers too.
How many more concurrent crises can we have?
as usual, disabled people are the ones who the state are happiest to let suffer.
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I work in a secondary school with SEND kids.
If you read the article, “they” is the Council; not the school.
We don’t have the funding or the provisions to help kids most at need and sometimes it is the parents’ fault.
We have a child joining us this week in Year 7 that we’re totally unequipped and trained to deal with. They should be going to a special school but their parents have insisted mainstream. I’m dreading Tuesday. They literally cannot read, write, or add 1+1 together. They don’t know when their own birthday is. Their psychologists and Primary School SEND specialists even said they’ll never ever be able to read or write. I’m at a loss. I’ll be working with this child every day and I’m being paid minimum wage.
I feel so sorry for this father but he’s blaming the Council and school for no reason. They’re not the ones to blame.
> Jack has ended up attending five schools in five years. They repeatedly failed to provide him with the dedicated one-to-one support he needs to successfully transition to a new environment – provision the council is legally required to secure.
Jack is the sort of child who ruins the learning of other pupils. In a completely insufficient and broken teaching system it is important to remember there is nothing that can be done. Kid just needs to keep getting excluded until he is so disaffected he roams the street and stabs someone and everyone can shout *WHERE WERE THE PARENTS*
Imagine trying to make the public give a fuck about SEN funding? In this country? Trying to explain this issue to the average Briton? Good luck.
It sounds like this kid needs specialist SEND schooling – he’s also old enough that he’s got a pretty small window before he’s out of children’s provision completely, and will get v little. Yes, the council do want these families to “just go away” because specialist schooling is expensive, but this kid is going to get eaten alive in mainstream education if he needs a lot of 1:1 support.
We don’t even provide proper help for disabled kids anymore? Fuck this island.
I had a child like this in my class when I was teaching. She had a chromosomal abnormality unique to her that resulted in something similar to Down’s Syndrome. It meant it was like having a toddler in a class of Year Two children. She needed one to one support, but so did two other kids who could participate in class if they had the support this girl had. Her parents were hoping she would get to Year Four and then leave (her older sister and only friend was two years older than her), so the school was determined to fill that wish. The problem was that she could not keep up with the other kids and basically needed her own lesson plan for everything, it was also obvious that the loss of free play all afternoon had a massive effect on her wellbeing. She was just not capable of lasting in mainstream education and should have been in the local special needs school. She was a nice kid but she demanded all your attention and that came at the expense of the other children in the class. It is why special needs schools are so important for everyone, those with special needs get the proper education they deserve and the rest of the class gets more attention from teachers too.
How many more concurrent crises can we have?
as usual, disabled people are the ones who the state are happiest to let suffer.