May 24, 2019, Cody (WY) Enterprise: Cody School District hiring additional special ed teacher http://www.codyenterprise.com/news/local/article_a2b1dfe2-7e52-11e9-b05a-3fe8984a0a31.html The Cody School District is hiring another special education teacher for the upcoming school year in response to an influx of students with special needs entering the high school. “Our numbers have continued to go up,” special education director Peg Monteith said. “This adds additional numbers, additional service minutes that at our current staffing level we can’t meet.” She said the reason for the increase is due to a combination of factors, including identifying more students in need and having more moving in…. Monteith doesn’t want teachers with too many cases. “For a special ed teacher to manage a case load of 19 students gets really difficult,” she said. “And then there’s all the paperwork each case takes in addition. It’s about enough to drive people out of the profession. I don’t want to see that.”… The average number of students with disabilities at the high school has ranged 80-90 over the past four years. Next year the count will be more than 100. …
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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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