Just been scanning through threads and came across this thread. The post by Belladonna79 at Tue 18-Dec-07 19:21:16 left me speechless.
"Haven't read all the posts but the reason I have chosen a competitive some might say elitist prep (not Habs or NLCS - we live too far away) is because I don't want MY child's education disrupppted by 'adhd' or 'dyslexic' children. I know its awful to say this but I want my children in a classroom where I know the teacher(s) won't be spending 90% off the time asking other kids to sit still. Its wrong that any children have to deal with this but if I don't look out for my children who will?"
- I have an autistic brother and an autistic nephew who is a mainstream primary school with an excellent SN unit and I am so thankful that he will never have to contend with abhorrent, misguided people like this at his school.
- I have been looking at schools (state) recently for my DTS and all of the ones I have visited (4 in total) have special units to cater for children with SN. During my visit to the school that I placed as my number one choice, a boy with SN was in the reception class with the other children and the whole class was working diligently in their groups. There was the main reception teacher, the TA and the SN teacher who sat next to the little boy whilst he worked in his group. That type of inclusiveness is one of the reasons why this school is my first choice.
- Anybody who thinks that it is only children with SN that are disruptive in class are seriously deluded and will be in for a nasty shock because 9 times out of 10, it is the off-spring of these insenstive, unempthatic, smug idiots who are usually the trouble makers since they can do no wrong!