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Children with autism 'face illegal exclusion'

Feb 24, 2014 11:12

By Katherine Sellgren

Thousands of children with autism are being illegally excluded from schools in England, a charity claims.In a survey of 500 families, Ambitious about Autism found four in 10 children had been informally excluded from school temporarily, which is illegal ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

masakochan February 24 2014, 17:32:10 UTC

As an autistic person- I've reached the point to where this shit hardly surprised me anymore. "We don't have support for the kids" usually just translates to me as "We don't want to have to deal with your kid because it takes too much effort."

urfvrtweapon February 24 2014, 20:17:40 UTC

I'm sorry if people have treated you this way. I'm not surprised either, people with disabilities get treated horribly by our society.

cuterabbit33 February 24 2014, 18:56:42 UTC

I misread it as 'executed' and nearly started crying. So I am 1% relieved that I was wrong. 99% still pissed off by this entirely.

wrestlingdog February 24 2014, 21:08:41 UTC

Same.

spiritoftherain February 25 2014, 02:37:11 UTC

I'm Canadian, but I was diagnosed in England when I was six and went to school there. I had to be in two schools, taking speech therapy in another one that catered to special needs. If it's anything like how it used to be from 1994-1999, it's depressing enough to be raised in schools there without having to deal with this kind of bullshit.

I can still remember the faces of the teachers who loathed me, who got back at me in any number of ways. I at least had the delusion of believing I didn't belong in those places because I was Canadian; Autistics who are born and raised there have no recourse.

tweedisgood February 25 2014, 07:02:27 UTC

I can only report that our son has had a very good experience in UK schools (especially in special education), it's not all bleak. Yes, he was sometimes excluded, always with notice and always for good reason (e.g. attacking a teacher and no, the teacher wasn't doing anything bad)- which he accepted as fair and being treated like the others. Feedback from other parents has been mixed but also generally positive.

Caveat that the statistics quoted and the "this may mean that" are extrapolated from a limited sample, so whilst it's bad that *any* child is not properly supported (and I don't doubt that many are not teachers need time, training and resources), their numbers are highly speculative and alarmist - but of course that makes news.