Mr Timpson speaks about behaviour

[inappropriatelyemployed]

"We think a pupil’s behaviour, for example, should be placed in its proper context.

All children go through patches of bad behaviour, and all teachers know that life at home can show up in behaviour or results in the classroom.

Now there are a range of ways to tackle that. It doesn’t help if children who are behaving badly to be automatically treated as having SEN. Indeed, that approach can sometimes prevent schools from recognising underlying issues properly and mean that children don’t get the support they really need. We want to change that."

See here

All the more pressure then to characterise 'behaviour' problems as problems at home. On what research is this based?

Perhaps he should start by examining his own behaviour!

MNSN response:

"We think a child's behaviour, for example, should be placed in its proper context.

All children go through patches of bad behaviour, and all parents of children with SEN know that life at school can show up in behaviour at home.

Now there are a range of ways to tackle that. It doesn’t help if children who are behaving badly to be automatically treated as having no SEN. Indeed, that approach can sometimes prevent schools from recognising underlying issues properly and mean that children don’t get the support they really need. We want to change that."

"Now there are a range of ways to tackle that"

Aren't impulsiveness, stress and mental health issues related to SEN worth looking at, then? Or are these the fault of parents, too?

[bare arse]

Starlight :o

I think I might petition MN for my icon, though. So much more direct and less PA than a sodding biscuit.

Fabulous Star. I shall put on blog.

If you are happy for me to??

I personally found that my ds's former school had a real problem differentiating between disobedience and disability.
They permanently excluded because of this which has resulted in some long term difficulties for ds.
In my view many schools need educating on how not to judge children or their parents based on behaviours expressed in school.

Of course IE.

Here you go

Brilliant