Mar 11, 2019, Global Construction Review: UK to build 39 new schools for challenging pupils as knife crime soars http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/uk-build-39-new-schools-challenging-pupils-knife-c/ Days after police officials and the mayor of London linked a spike in youth violence to rising school expulsions, the UK government has announced that 39 new schools will be built in England for children who need extra support. Using £350m [$470m US dollars] in previously announced funds, the school-building spree will create around 3,500 new school places across the country catering for pupils at risk of being excluded from school or who have complex needs such as learning difficulties and mental health conditions. The so-called Special Education Needs units will be attached to mainstream schools. … Announcing the plan yesterday, Education Secretary Damian Hinds said the schools “will make sure that more complex needs can be provided to help support every child to have a quality education”. His announcement followed a call made on 7 March by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) from seven UK regions for Prime Minister Theresa May to take action against rising numbers of school exclusions, which they said make children vulnerable to being “sucked into criminality”. They said the number of young people permanently excluded across England had risen by 56% in the three years to 2017, blaming schools wanting to rise up in exam league tables…. The number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year was at the highest level since records began in 1946, official figures show, while, according to The Guardian, 10 teenagers have been killed in knife attacks in the first two months of 2019 alone. Sara Thornton, chairwoman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said the government should be treating the rise in violence as a national emergency.
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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
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