Oct 8, 2017, UK Daily Mail: Furious mother says primary school teacher locked her boy, four, in cupboard for an hour then expelled him for lashing out http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4960056/Furious-mother-says-teacher-locked-son-cupboard.html A furious mother claims teachers locked her four-year-old son in a 'store cupboard' with no windows for an hour - and then expelled him. Tina Yourelis said staff at Raeburn Primary School in Wirral, Merseyside, put her son Eli in a 'calming room' which had no windows or toys and looked like a 'prison cell' after an incident when he had lashed out. The 30-year-old claims she previously told staff that Eli has behavioural issues and would need learning support. But on his first day she was called into school over claims he attacked a dinner lady. Ms Yourelis claims this was because he was alone and 'petrified' of the other children in the playground. She said: 'Eli began hitting this person and as a result I was called into the school. 'Eli's condition is not diagnosed yet but he has trouble understanding social situations and will often get confused and lash out.'… 'He has lashed out a few times at school since he started but they haven't given him the support he needs.'... 'My son was in the cupboard hysterically crying and the school told me he was in the 'calming box' because they didn't know how else to deal with him. 'This 'calming box' was a store cupboard with no windows, water or toys to entertain him with, it was simply a green mat in a cupboard for him to sit on. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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