Autism and mainstream education

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This sounds like there's a lot more options available for kids today than when I went to school. I'd like to see it get expanded on.

Neurodivergent students exit mainstream in droves amid school refusal crisis

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Likely happening or will be happening in other countries, as well.

 

[Tired]

Looking forward to seeing ND people being acknowledged in Serbia. Here word "autistic" is used as fun, and people have 0 idea what it actually is, they just call themselves autistic when they do something stupid, same as calling themselves a retard.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I had no idea I was on spectrum in high school, so made my own path, ignored the rules did it my way. The school accommodated my older brother and I. Even wrote letters for both of us that got both of us accepted to a University even through I decided to go to college instead. Showed me their is back doors, Which I used to get my learning disabled younger son through college.

 

[TBRS1]

I'm not sure that "mainstream education" serves more than 20% of the population very well.

Unfortunately, the other options - homeschooling or alternative education - vary so much in quality (where I live, "homeschooling" = "legal no schooling") that I wouldn't count on them saving anybody...

...unless the kid is lucky.

 

[NB79]

Here my parents and people if you say you are autistic, they are like 'so what?'... it's the same.

 

[Judge]

That's a really BIG "if" question I seldom ponder.

Whether or not I might have had a better or worse education without all the stress and strife of hostile social interactions throughout public school grades five to twelve. Equally knowing I never had any chance of being home-schooled. (My mother would have instantly vetoed the idea.)

Though it does remind me of the faces of those select kids who went to a parallel program of "special education" on the same premises. Where it was unclear if they remained separate from the mainstream student by choice or by administrators. And recalling a certain amount of prejudice by some over thinking they were somehow inferior to the mainstream.

Thinking of how arduous public school was socially speaking, and how much of it may have subtracted from my ability to learn and flourish academically speaking. Makes me sad.

 

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I'm part way through writing a proposal for my state's education department to try and get them to set up a proper online learning service for neurodivergent students. This isn't really new territory for Australia, we've had remote learning schools for children in far flung rural properties since the 1940s. When they first started up all schooling was done over two way radios, these days it's online with live streaming cameras.