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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/
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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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(UK) Harrogate: Plans proposed for 80 place autism school

The end of childhood
Jan 19
1 min read

Jan 19, 2026, Your Harrogate: Opinions sought on new specialist autism school in Harrogate

https://www.yourharrogate.co.uk/local-news/harrogate/opinions-sought-on-new-specialist-autism-school-in-harrogate/

A public consultation is taking place on plans to open a new specialist autism school in Harrogate.

Lighthouse Education Trust has been approved by North Yorkshire Council as the preferred provider to run the proposed school, to be known as Lighthouse School Harrogate.

The school is planned for the site of the former Woodfield Primary School.

The consultation survey opened online last month and will close on 3rd February 2026.

It forms part of the statutory pre-opening process and is seeking views from parents, carers, local residents, schools and the wider community.

Katherine Atkinson, Chief Finance and Opperations Officer at Lighthouse School, said:

Lighthouse School Harrogate is proposed as a special free school for up to 80 autistic children and young people aged 11 to 19.

Places would be allocated by North Yorkshire Council through Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). . . .

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