I work at a brilliant school that is rock bottom in the league tables

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Its a special school for children with learning difficulties!

Its sad that the media don't recongise the achievements of those with learning difficulties. The media claim that countries like Singapore or Finland have higher educational standards than other. It would be interesting to know what childen with major special needs achieve in other countries as well as the highest achievers.

Is the UK really as bad as some people make out. In many countries children with disablities do not get a decent education.

In some of the eastern european countries whose mainstream children achieve higher than ours I KNOW that their provision for SN kids is awful. We have had 2 asylum seekers ( both aged 8 when they moved here) from such countries, in the unit for deaf children where I work. Neither of them had even been to school never mind had hearing aids or specialist teachers as they do here. Our school is absolutely FABULOUS. The mainstream school is lovely. Great well behaved, sensitive deaf aware children, super teachers (better than where my dds go with their "outstanding " OFSTED) and our HI children do fantastically well. We get no credit for this.
I am also the music teacher in this school and today we have had the most wonderful signed carol service in a local church. All the children (deaf and hearing) signed and sang all the carols and we had signed intepretation for all the readings by both deaf and hearing children. Shame that when parents are looking for a school they only concentrate on league tables and ofsted reports and wonderful things like this are given no value at all.