Mar 16, 2019, Planet Radio, Birmingham: Families protest "absolutely devastating" school funding as education secretary visits Birmingham https://planetradio.co.uk/free/local/news/families-protest-absolutely-devastating-school-funding-as-education-secretary-visits-birmingham/ Protesting families descended on Birmingham today to confront Education Secretary Damian Hinds over school cuts. It's after King's Heath Primary joined a growing number of schools across the Birmingham announcing plans to finish the week at 1pm on Friday- in a bid to make ends meet. The school is also having to review its special educational needs and disabilities provision. … "But for parents of disabled children who now may no longer have a school place, this is absolutely devastating, because there just aren't enough school places for children with special educational needs." Angry parents were ready to confront Damian Hinds today - who was in Birmingham attending the Association of School and College Leaders annual conference. "We're supposed to be a rich country," says mum Rosie. "We're supposed to go into Brexit negotiations saying we're powerful and rich. Well, are we? We can't afford to fund five days a week of schooling," she continues. The education secretary failed to come out to meet the protesters.
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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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