Aufzeichnung 1 von 5 Schülern in England erhalten Unterstützung bei Sonderpädagogik
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mdz2728zo
Von grapplinggigahertz
Aufzeichnung 1 von 5 Schülern in England erhalten Unterstützung bei Sonderpädagogik
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mdz2728zo
Von grapplinggigahertz
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A 44% rise since 2016 and a 5.6% rise in just the last 12 months.
Great to see that the system acknowledges not everyone learns the same way and more children than ever are getting the support they need to help them meet their potential.
Considering about 1 in 5 or 20% of children have at least one special educational need, seems about right.
Great stuff, given the challenge that faces us it’s surely time for central Government to provide additional funding to councils to provide the SEN resources that these children need.
If the figure is now 1 in 5 it’s totally unreasonable to expect councils and LA’s that are already suffering from over a decade of underinvestment to finance this.
If anything, this highlights the asymmetric ways we need to be teaching kids. We’ve known for at least a century that not all kids learn the same way in a school environment.
Hopefully with the advent of AI, we can more specifically target education toward a particular child’s needs without putting more burden on the teachers. Children should not learn to fit with the school. The school should learn to fit with the children.
When I was in secondary school (granted, this was 20 years ago) there were only about six students in my entire year who were identified as having special needs. Has the definition changed or broadened since then?
I won’t be popular with this take, but the online learning and closing the schools caused more harm than good, because we have a generation of kids with poor social skills
All the focus remains on the lowest performers, the top performers remain ignored. Just a push to bring everyone to the average.
And, the teaching assistants who work to help the kids are paid barely more than minimum wage.
I was never diagnosed with a learning disability (my parents didn’t want me to be “labeled”) but thanks to a good and observant teacher in primary school I was recognised as needing extra help. That I wasn’t just a bit stupid or dopey as everyone else thought.
I was given one on one help by a teaching assistant and this teacher also really encouraged my drawing and artwork, as I was good at art.
When I went into secondary school I no longer needed extra assistance, I was in top set for most of my subjects, then I went to uni, have a masters degree and a pretty good job. The right assistance at a young age can basically set someone up for life, we don’t all learn in the same way.
I honestly think if I never received the assistance I had in primary school I would have given up on school by the time I reached my GCSEs.
However I do worry if this is kids actually getting the right help they need, or a bigger problem that is getting swept under the “learning disability/special needs/ neurodivergence” rug. Maybe parents aren’t putting in the effort to help their kids educations?
This just tells me that our education system isn’t fit for purpose. Instead of providing special support to individual kids maybe a look at the entire system is needed
Remember everyone, SEND is not overdiagnosed. Remember that!
Nothing to do with: mobile phone use, social media, covid-19 pandemic, crap parenting, breakdown of social cohesion and poor diets.
Technology, social media and lockdown have caused a pandemic in itself, the definitions are too broad. Many children jsut lack playing with other children and time away from technology. Strange how India and China don’t have these same isssues
It makes sense considering we weren’t diagnosing ADHD and autism very much until recently. The numbers before were very low. I think people are increasingly disabled though. Personally austerity cuts and the like has directly impacted my health and meant I am now long term sick, possibly permanently. I hope people can realise that if you pinch the pennies you’ll lose the pounds.
I have only recently diagnosed with autism in my 30s. I did terrible at school, I really struggled. I definitely should’ve got help but it wasn’t made available to me. I’m glad more kids are getting the support they need.
My partner works in a school and last year they had 28 out of 30 students in a class get stuff like extra time on exams – seems to have peaked, thankfully – not sure if the pandemic impact or just middle class private school parents gaming the system.
I’d argue they aren’t getting that support. It even close. We don’t give schools the budgets to support that many students.
Doesn’t mean the have an EHCP plan.
No funding ,limited resources and yet some academies are demanding 85% GLD In EYFS.
Make that make sense ,when 30% of your class is SEND.
Look, when 20% have „special needs“, nobody has special needs.
It’s kids with „oppositional defiance disorder“ (they don’t like doing what they’re to – that’s an actual thing) or just kids who haven’t been taught how to read, but instead of teaching them we just plow on insisting that they go to normal classes.
20% of kids being labelled doesn’t mean that 20% of kids need any extra help. What most (of course not all) of them need is a set of clearly defined rules, and clear unambiguous absolutely certain consequences for breaking the rules.
And take the phones off them. That would also help.
It’s heart breaking to watch so many parents have to FIGHT for this, it’s not like it’s some easy hand out. I respect parents so much for this because the alternative of that kid growing up and reaching adulthood without the right support is devastating.