Mar 11, 2019, Independent: Dozens of new schools to be built for special educational needs and excluded pupils https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/special-educational-needs-exclusions-free-schools-places-dfe-a8817671.html 'This money will only go so far and funding shortages in schools go much further and deeper' New specialist schools for children with special educational needs, or pupils who have been excluded from mainstream schools, are be built across England. Around 3,500 more school places will be created under plans to open 37 special and two alternative provision schools, the Department for Education said. But a headteachers’ union has warned that funding shortages go much “deeper” and existing schools needed more cash to support children with complex needs. It comes after the National Education Union (NEU) warned last year thousands of children with special educational needs do not have school places amid a “crisis” in education funding…. "It is of particular concern that the financial burden of addition support for pupils with more complex needs penalises those mainstream schools that are the most inclusive. “This is unsustainable. We need significant investment into existing schools and services to ensure all pupils, irrespective of starting point or need, fulfil their full potential.”…
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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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