July 7, 2020, Irish Post: Two in three Irish primary school teachers are physically hurt by their students https://www.irishpost.com/news/two-in-three-irish-primary-school-teachers-are-physically-hurt-by-their-students-188555 TWO-THIRDS of primary school staff in Ireland are physically hurt by their students, according to a new survey. The Inclusion Illusion survey, which was carried out by the National Principals' Forum, a lobbying group set up in 2019, set out to identify any shortfalls in the provision of special needs education in the primary school system. It found that not only have two-thirds of primary school staff been hurt by their students, but that one in three were hurt on a 'regular' basis. The survey also revealed that four out of five principals have seen their mental health deteriorate due to the stresses involved with the job, while more than three quarters claim that their physical health has suffered. The conclusion in the report reads: "The health and wellbeing of the principals, and indeed teachers, trying to safeguard our pupils, in particular, those with additional needs, already disadvantaged by a system that is unfit for purpose, is being continually exploited and eroded. "The most startling figure of all found by the survey was that 88.4pc of principals agreed that they have less SET [Special Education Teaching] time under the new SET allocation model than they would have had in the older allocation model in 2012." This new model was introduced in 2017 and it was designed to be fairer to those in need of special education support. However, this survey concluded that in the vast majority of cases there is less allocation under this model for school-going children.
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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.
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Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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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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