Parents forced to quit jobs as Autistic kids get excluded from school!

[Mr Allen]

Link.

I'm sorry but what the heck? Surely the system should be designed to look after Autistic kids who may have behavioural issues?

Apparently not.


Thoughts?

 

[Starfire]

You are right is my thought! From experience I can tell you that children diagnosed with autism, high functioning especially, are often badly let down and treated inappropriately by some teachers and the education system, unfortunately.

 

[Autistamatic]

"The system" has never coped with autistic kids well. There is little awareness, even less specific training for educators and school budgets have been slashed in recent years.
Whilst unlawful exclusions like this are utterly deplorable, you can understand why, for utilitarian reasons, they choose to disadvantage a few kids with problem behaviours in order to benefit the majority. They shouldn't be having to make decisions like that in the first place.

 

[Mattymatt]

"The system" has never coped with autistic kids well. There is little awareness, even less specific training for educators and school budgets have been slashed in recent years.
Whilst unlawful exclusions like this are utterly deplorable, you can understand why, for utilitarian reasons, they choose to disadvantage a few kids with problem behaviours in order to benefit the majority. They shouldn't be having to make decisions like that in the first place.

No, it certainly has not. It doesn't help that education is often the first line item to be slashed from a budget. When I think of the verbal and psychological abuse that I suffered at the hands of my teachers, I am really and truly glad that there is now an option to go to school online. I wish that such an option existed when I was going through high school. I would have jumped all over it.

 

[Autistamatic]

Likewise Matt. Very little of what I learned in my school years actually occurred in a classroom - I was sent out of half of them!

 

[Judge]

"The system" has never coped with autistic kids well. There is little awareness, even less specific training for educators and school budgets have been slashed in recent years. Whilst unlawful exclusions like this are utterly deplorable, you can understand why, for utilitarian reasons, they choose to disadvantage a few kids with problem behaviours in order to benefit the majority. They shouldn't be having to make decisions like that in the first place.

Then consider the mindset of so many civil administrators who inevitably follow a regimen of "human warehousing" when it comes to such people. That it was never intended to "rehabilitate" them, but rather to simply sweep them under a rug relative to the rest of society.

Where "the system" effectively writes them off. Somewhat like habitual criminals. Devastating not only for the children, but their parents and guardians.