Dec 31, 2019, Weston Mercury: Special school 'bursting at seams' due to increasing demand https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/education/headteacher-of-special-school-appeals-for-public-to-back-expansion-1-6445099 The headteacher, of a special school in desperate need of expansion, is appealing for people to support the proposal to help children with the highest care needs in North Somerset. Baytree School, in Locking Castle, is 'bursting at the seams' and in desperate need of expansion due to the growing demand for places. The school needs to expand to enable it to accommodate the increasing number of children with highly complex physical needs and learning difficulties…. Headteacher Ed Bowen-Roberts is appealing for people to recognise the dire need for additional places to ensure children with the greatest special educational needs are able to attend a school close to their home…. "Funding young people out of county has significant cost implications, which means the high needs block overspend increases and that has to be topped up with money that should be given to mainstream schools." Baytree School, in Highlands Lane, is the only school in North Somerset designated to provide education to children with severe and profound learning difficulties. The school building can longer meet the increasing needs of students who need a variety of equipment…. Mr Bowen-Roberts said: "The need for the expansion is great. It was needed last year…. More: Schools under 'incredible pressure' due to rise in pupils with high needs…. "We shouldn't have to send young people out of county. It results in longer journey times and young people also missing out on the local offer. The school predicts 14 children will need spaces at the school in 2021, but it will only be able to take on three. The cost of educating children outside the district can be in excess of £100,000 [$130K US] per year.
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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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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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