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Lots of answered threads in SN Education

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WetAugust · 17/04/2012 18:54

I can't bear to see an unanswered thread. I asked MNHQ to move one.

Question: Do we need a separate SN Education section that hardly anyone ever looks at? Should we ask for it to be removed or possible have a sticky or something directing people to SN Children where all the baddies wonderful SN parents lurk?

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cwtch4967 · 18/04/2012 16:44

I think SN Education should be included in SN children as it overlaps. I never look at SN education and only use SN Children.

Bellete · 18/04/2012 11:31

Oh God yes-I often tell posters on SEN to repost on Special Needs Children as I feel so sorry for them with so little traffic there. I am a bit Shock as to the existence of a Special Needs Teen board-how could I have missed this? I had no idea it existed.Confused. Why not just have one Special needs area for children and teens and special needs education? It would be much easier and clearer. I have a 12 yr old who will obviously be a teen next year but I would much prefer to stay on the childrens board as there is some terrific advice on there from posters who also have teens etc.

Iceflower · 18/04/2012 09:49

Also agree the need to merge. A change in heading would also help, as some parents at the beginning of the SN journey might get scared off by the "SN" label.

Sometimes a parent knowing something is not quite right, suspects dyslexia and somewhere down the line discovers the child has AS, PDA, anxiety disorder, etc, etc. That parent was me Grin.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 18/04/2012 09:04

Would agree to merge the forums. Have more than once advised another poster on the Education forum under special needs to repost in SN Children as that forum receives far more daily traffic.

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2shoes · 17/04/2012 22:33

sen education is not the same as sn education

DameHermione · 17/04/2012 22:33

aybe i should move over there. but i'd have nobody to talk to Sad

2shoes · 17/04/2012 22:33

I would hate to see the teens bit go, it just needs more people to post on it

messmonster · 17/04/2012 22:25

I agree they should merge and the main SN board be changed to SN Kids and Education

DameHermione · 17/04/2012 22:24

mines a teenager but i still wallow around in SN children as that's where the nice people will listen to my woes and feed me Wine

is there a need for the sub-SN bits at all? or if they were ditched would one SN section be too big and move too fast?

Hellenbach · 17/04/2012 22:21

I didn't know there wasva SN education board!

Toppy · 17/04/2012 22:16

I agree - I too feel awful when I see unanswered threads there. They need merging

UnChartered · 17/04/2012 21:55

i'd like to see them merged too, good idea

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shoppingbagsundereyes · 17/04/2012 21:53

I posted several times in sen education to no avail before discovering sen children got all the traffic. Definitely don't need both.

lionheart · 17/04/2012 21:38

I would like to see this happen. Smile

2shoes · 17/04/2012 21:33

oh and I don't see the point in sn legal as tbh you would get more replies in the sn topic.
imo people who post in sn are very busy, so they don't have loads of time to go around different topics.

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 17/04/2012 21:33

I have to agree with Wet. It seems such a shame that posters get no response and maybe give up when there is a wealth of support and knowledge on SN children.

2shoes · 17/04/2012 21:32

sn teens was good idea(well of course as it was mine:o)
but it never took of imo.

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WetAugust · 17/04/2012 21:31

I can see the need to keep SN Teens. Although it currently has very little traffic, it should grow as our children move into their teens.

But SN Children deals daily with:

SN Education and SN Legal. In fact it difficult to divorce SN Children from these other 2 SN areas as lack of SN provision at school invariably leads to SN Legal as we force LAs to Tribunal to acknowledge our childresn's needs.

I think it's a shame when parents post on SN Edication / Legal and get no response whatsoever. There were comments on a Chat thread today from parents who had posted in the SN area and received no replies.

It makes the SN Children board where most SN parents do post, look 'cliquey' and it could be construed that new posters in SN Education / Legal are being ignored - when the reality is that those new threads go unseen.

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LittleFrieda · 17/04/2012 21:25

Why is education split between education, primary, secondary, etc. Let's just have education.

There are far too many topics on Mumsnet now.

Ineedalife · 17/04/2012 21:21

There are 2 that don't get much traffic, one is in this section by the SN children and the other is in Education.

I can understand the the one in education might need to stay but it still doesn't get much traffic compared to this board.

AgnesDiPesto · 17/04/2012 21:20

Yes it makes sense to move / combine it, the SN education board gets very little traffic and we all talk constantly about education of the SN children board.

2shoes · 17/04/2012 21:16

lol. I assume most people would post in sn, so new people will just og unanswered in an un used topic.

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WetAugust · 17/04/2012 21:15

Wll there you are - a good reason not to have one Grin

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