May 30, 2017, School News Network: Principal: Teachers are 'Doing Everything' for Students https://www.schoolnewsnetwork.org/index.php/2016-17/principal-teachers-are-doing-everything-students/
Sparta Area Schools, MI
A pair of first-grade teachers at Ridgeview Elementary recently told two visiting Michigan legislators about the stresses of teaching under strained budgets, and the increasing demands on teachers to serve greater student needs.
Meeting in a roomful of administrators and teachers, Monica Myers and Megan Taylor gave state Sen. Peter MacGregor and Rep. Rob VerHeulen a frank overview of the district's many challenges. They described how teachers have taken on many responsibilities previously delegated to support staff, as budget cuts have eliminated programs that would otherwise help students with behavior and mental health issues and the stresses of poverty….
While students enter her classroom with higher needs than ever before, Myers said, every student deserves to be supported at school. "If you peel back those behaviors, you find the kid inside," she said.
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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
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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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