Feb 14, 2019, NBC4, Nashville, TN: Sensory hallway helping students focus, decompress on way to class https://www.wsmv.com/news/sensory-hallway-helping-students-focus-decompress-on-way-to-class/article_3bef2e98-3066-11e9-beb9-2b1036495699.html One Middle Tennessee school is helping students with learning differences thrive in the classroom. Students like 7-year-old Ethan can follow arrows and footsteps in the sensory hallway that has been added to the Edison School in Gallatin. "We've got kids that have anxiety just being around other students. We have kids that, when they're learning, they need to be up and moving, so sitting in a traditional classroom's not gonna work for them," said Dr. John Wilson, head of the school. …

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.