to be shocked at a mother feeding her 7 and 4 year old DS's yoghurt with a spoon?

[Anna8888]

Franco-American mother I know a little - her DSs are at the same school as my daughter. They were having a picnic lunch in the park yesterday and she fed them each a yoghurt (in its entirety) with a spoon.

FAB IDEA KEWCUMBER :O

and tbh that is my reply to this thread JWDIM.......

I'm surprised that level of discrimination is allowed. Then again, actually no I'm not all that surprised.

I wouldn't want any of my children (NT or SN) to attend a school with a policy like that. I'd hate them to grow up thinking that it was acceptable to discriminate against people with disabilities.

Personally I'd be far more concerned about the anti-SN policy than about a 7yr-old being fed with a spoon.

I think it's just to enable the school to fulfil its primary purpose, which is to educate children bilingually and to integrate non-French speaking/educated children into the French system. I don't think a school like that has also to be all things to all people.

But under that policy a child like ds1 who has a gift for languages (French, German and Korean as well as English) would be refused access because he has ASD.

Dress it up however you like. It's still discrimination.

coppertop - no, he would be assessed for suitability.

ah, so then it IS possible for a child with ASD with a gift for languages to be admitted to the same school those 4 and 6 year olds attend, if they have been assessed as suitable.

Therefore, you cannot be absolutely sure one or both do not have SN.

congratulations anna. how lovely your darlings will be able to discriminate in 3 languages.

Blueshoes - I agree I thought that too and started typing: Anna you are inconsistent. But I lost the will to live.