Aug 21, 2019, Oldham Evening Chronicle: Second expansion agreed for special school in Oldham http://oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/139/main-news/129852/second-expansion-agreed-for-special-school-in-oldham Town hall bosses have agreed the second expansion in six months of a school for children with autism to meet ‘significant pressure’ for places. Oldham’s cabinet has agreed to spend £300,000 [$363,000] from the basic needs funding pot to increase the number of classrooms at Hollinwood Academy on Roman Road. When it opened in 2015 the school was originally expected to cater for around 50 pupils, but officers predict that by this September there will be more than four times that, with 215 attending the school. The ‘bespoke’ school was designed to offer ‘state-of-the-art specialist provision’ for pupils aged four to 19 who have autism or social communication needs. The latest investment comes on top of £390,000 which was signed off in February for four new classrooms. With the new funding, in total eight new classrooms will be provided at the academy. According to the report by Andy Collinge, head of school support services, the additional increased pressure on places is a result of parental choice and also an increase in the number of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) where the school is named as the preferred provider. …
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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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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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