Record 1 su 5 alunni in Inghilterra ottenendo supporto per l’educazione speciale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mdz2728zo
di grapplinggigahertz
Record 1 su 5 alunni in Inghilterra ottenendo supporto per l’educazione speciale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mdz2728zo
di grapplinggigahertz
13 commenti
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: 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