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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/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)

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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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White House, TN: Autistic 5yo student charged with assault

The end of childhood
Nov 10, 2025
1 min read

Nov 10, 2025, Tennessean: 5-year-old with autism charged with assault after outbursts at Sumner County school

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2025/11/10/tennessee-kindergartener-with-autism-charged-assault-sumner-county/87014979007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=undefined&gca-ft=0&gca-ds=sophi

Larry Burke, a school resource officer at H.B. Williams Elementary School in White House, filed for charges of aggravated assault and simple assault to be taken out against the kindergartener in early September, records show. The boy is accused of throwing chairs, overturning furniture and tossing items around a classroom. One child was struck with a plastic hourglass while others were hit with glue sticks, a toy and a flexible piece of furniture, according to the documents. The report said the boy later pushed a child to the ground at recess and struck the child on the arm. . . .

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