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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.

Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017

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

(Ireland) Beaufort: Special school gets five more classrooms

The end of childhood
Feb 1
1 min read

Jan 16, 2025, Radio Kerry: Five new classrooms part of upgrade for St Francis' Special School, Beaufort

https://www.radiokerry.ie/news/five-new-classrooms-part-of-upgrade-for-st-francis-special-school-beaufort-417445

Minister for Education Norma Foley has announced that initial project approval has been given for a St Francis' Special School, Beaufort.

The school for children with additional needs will get five new classrooms, a sensory room, a music room, a cookery room and a withdrawal room.

St Francis' Special School will also be retrofitted and upgraded to a Building Energy Rating of B with renewable heating.

Fianna Fáil TD Michael Cahill has welcomed the news which is part of a national increased investment in special education, including the approval of 16 new special schools and the doubling of special classes.

Independent Kerry TD Danny Healy Rae also welcomed the initial project approval for the development.