Die Gewerkschaft warnt, dass die Schulen nicht über genügend Personal verfügen, um die SEND-Reformen zum Erfolg zu führen
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15dzz8z153o
Von JohnHammond94
Die Gewerkschaft warnt, dass die Schulen nicht über genügend Personal verfügen, um die SEND-Reformen zum Erfolg zu führen
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15dzz8z153o
Von JohnHammond94
15 Kommentare
At this point, any article about the education system may as well be a fill in the blanks.
„Schools do not have enough [blank] for [blank]“.
They’re understaffed and underfunded.
Well that’s obvious. And now everyone involved will struggle with the changes, and the Sen kids will be the ones who lose out the most. Disabled people will always be the whipping boys of society
This is an area where AI will make the difference and probably what the gov is thinking. e.g. take a lesson plan and tell ai to tailor it for the needs of each individual in the room and create the custom learning materials and activities. Tell ai to draw up an Individual Support Plan for every child with special educational needs and then monitor student progress describing interventions. To some extent, education is already data driven especially at senior leadership level but the practical tooling for teachers and individuals can really benefit going forward.
The future problem then will be the teacher unions rallying against AI because schools won’t need all the staff especially 1:1 Teaching assistants. At the end of the day ,they only serve their members and don’t drive improvements.
Why would anyone want to teach? Knowing how many jump ship after only a few years.
What a farce.
If you know anyone who works in a school this has pretty much been the norm for schools under this government.
Labour keeps making changes without actually properly funding it so the schools are being forced to cut other things or even let staff go to meet the new requirements.
The breakfast club caused complete carnage at multiple schools near me.
Seriously need to have hard look at what is categorized as SEND. If you we don’t have the resources to support the increased demand they need to restrict access to SEND. Yes i know that will be unfair to some but its better than the entire system collapsing.
Almost as if us SEND parents have been telling them this for years 🤔
As the parent of a SEN child – this worries me greatly.
Screw it, I know it doesn’t work like that but maybe it’s time to make printing more money just work like that.
Basically the gov is promising parents with a moon on a stick but with enough money for a half a penny sweet for each kid.
The ‘reforms’ are a cost cutting exercise as they want less kids going to special schools and less EHCPs.
I do wonder if all the noise being made about how much money and resource is being spent on SEN is trying to build a case for ditching legal responsibilities for educating them ‚to save money‘. Maybe I’m being cynical but it does feel a lot of moral things are being boiled down to ‚value to taxpayer‘.
And once you can build a case for ‚its not worth educating them‘ how long until ‚its not worth caring for them‘. Quite frightening really.
They never have. Some SEND kids need 1-1 attention to keep them focused, and if the goal is for the teacher to give everyone the same education that is going to slow the whole class down massively. It’s difficult enough providing that if you’re with the kid the whole day, but even worse if they’ve come from another lesson where something might have set their triggers.
It’s disgusting that they depend on staff to work as Teaching Assistants through agencies.
Staff that don’t know how many days they will work each week, get zero sick pay, zero holiday pay, zero maternity/paternity leave, zero development/training.
So are paid below the minimum wage!!
If you look beyond the headline you can see the problem here.
It’s the unions warning the government that staffing isn’t enough, not the headteachers or the senior management. It’s the same thing in the NHS, the government has perpetuated a culture of fear that encourages management to bootlick and blow smoke up the governments collective arses, or risk replacement. Because managers giving the real reasons for these systems getting poorer, doesn’t win the government votes.
We now have a negative feedback loop, where the management won’t tell the government about failings, and the government won’t fix them because if they aren’t formally told, they don’t have to spend money on it. Then some scandal hits, it does its rounds in the press, then vanishes as quickly as it appeared.
My wives school was great for SEN kids about four years ago. Then parents caught whiff and started picking it specifically for their kids so the school ended up with a way above average SEN intake.
A few years on with massive cuts and the school is a complete shit show because they don’t have the resources anymore and have lost a lot of of specialist staff. They’ve tried to move the kids to more appropriate schools but there isn’t anything in the local area.