Oh Ffs! Wy did I click on the thread!! Why!?...

[Badvoc]

Thread about gove and schools.
Knew I shouldn't post but did.
And, of course, as expected, sen/sn kids get too much money and time spent on them!!
Really!?
Not ime.
Ffs.

[Badvoc]

:)

[Badvoc]

..won't someone think of the able children!....

[inappropriatelyemployed]

Don't venture off the board!!!!!!!!!!!! I never do.

But just from what you have posted here I can guess what has been going on [shudder]

I loathe Gove and his exclusionary policies wheeled out under a deceptive mantle of enabling the disadvantaged. But teachers/heads should be better led and more strategic. They should f**k the league tables and Ofsted and stand up for teaching and stand up to middle class parents more.

AnotherAlia - I have just become a Governor!

[UnChartered]

just to reiterate what inapp and others have said about the main boards

i've hidden all the main 'other topics' now

[Badvoc]

Agree completely IE.
I am a gov too and have just been given taken sen as my area of responsibility :)
Let the fun begin :)

[Badvoc]

Vows to never leave MNSN again...
(Although she didn't actually answer my question, did she!?)

[infamouspoo]

maybe i wont read it. ds, with severe cerebral palsy is in mainstream, clearly hogging all the resources. Wont someone think of the poor non isdabled children
Oh wait, his one to one doesnt affect the other kids....

[Badvoc]

Oh, I am just so sick of it....
My sons school gets 12 hours of a EP time per year.
People really think that there is so much help "out there" don't they?
:(

[Badvoc]

There is a little boy with CP at my younger sons pre school.
He has no 1-1 (he doesn't need it) and more than holds his own in races using his walker frame :)
It would never have occurred to me to think "oh, that means my precious child won't get proper care now. All the resources will be diverted to this child!"
I mean, who thinks like that!?
:(

[infamouspoo]

oh I looked. oops. ds gets full time 1 to 1 because he cannot move or speak. This takes nothing from the children who are lucky enough to be able to walk and talk (see, they are bloody advantaged already) as the funding stream is seperate. His equipment is funded by the PCT/LA (after mucho bickering). The other kids clearly dont need specialised seating, physio, VOCA, hydrotherapy, SLT, whatever else he gets as I've lost track and not one jot comes from the school budget. In fact, his LSA often helps other kids.
The same applies to the other 15 kids just like ds (none can move or speak) in the school of 220.
Its a fucking fantastic school.
The one and only time I heard a parent moan was on sports day when the children in wheelchairs with their pushing buddies got to start further up the field in a race and this dipshit dad claimed it wasnt 'fair'. I might have tapped him on the shoulder and offered to chop his child's legs off so she could have the same 'advantage' as the disabled children. He went all pink

[inappropriatelyemployed]

Grr, that makes me so mad. It's on a par with women getting special tyreatment because we get maternity pay

Disablism is the new racism/sexism, I'm telling you.

DS's useless TA once said about a charity enterprise project he was running with his SLT ( a disguised social skills group) that it was really unfair because he got to pick the participants so some of the other children who didn't get picked would feel left out.

I had to remind that DS NEVER got picked for sports, or trips to art lessons, or trips to 'able children' sessions at other schools, or in life generally...... you stupid cow.

Sorry, but when the people who are PAID to support your kids don't get it, what hope is there?

[elliejjtiny]

Don't know where people get the idea that children who have SEN get all this extra help. In my DS2's class there are several children with SEN/disabilities. There is one child who gets a 1 to 1 TA, she has autism, wears nappies, needs constant supervision because she runs off otherwise. 3 children who are part time wheelchair users (including DS2), no help apart from a couple of grab rails and steps and I had to fight for them, children who have speech issues, no help, children who have behavioural problems, no help. Children have to have very severe SN to get anything and their parents have to fight for it. There is a group of mums of children with physical disabilities who are currently fighting for provision for our children at sports day.

I have 2 children at that school and my NT able bodied DS1 is definately the one with the advantage.

[Badvoc]

I know...it's almost an urban myth now isn't it?
All those pesky sen/sn kids using up all the money!
:(
I know I am an idiot, but I will never stop pointing out when posters are being disablist bigots or just plain ignorant.
So, need to get used to it, I guess.