Neurodivergent children are being failed in mainstream schools, teachers warn | 5 News

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►In an exclusive 5 News survey almost half the teachers we spoke to say neurodivergent pupils aren't getting the support they need. According to a teachers' union, they're being "failed" in mainstream schools.
As many as one in five of the population are neurodivergent - a term that encompasses conditions including ADHD, autism, dyspraxia, dyslexia and dyscalculia. Our Chief Correspondent Tessa Chapman has this special report.
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[@mandlin4602]

I’m dyslexic dyspraxic and have dyscalculia. Had zero behavioural problems, but teachers bullied the hell out of me and now I have lifelong depression. It’s any type of neurological difference they will make your life HELL. What training does an adult need not to call a kid a failure daily? What training does an adult need not to make a class laugh at you saying “you’ll never get a job”? They can’t even do fucking empathy and teachers who traumatise (again I was very wel behaved) kids face no consequences! But I was left with a damaged body (anorexic ages 14-16 trying to cope with the PTSD they gave me), a damaged mind (stuck on antidepressants) and a stolen potential. You get to retire from calling ND kids names, but ND kids live with your words for life 😖 😠

[@Sunflower-kk5ul]

The problem is they hire Senco staff from supermarkets - they don’t have a clue how to do their jobs - the teachers have no support and the school use your kid funding to help themselves more than your kid. They have no clue how to support kids with disabilities - is a nightmare and a let down to these kids.

[@glideagain]

Do you think in some circumstances this improper use of funding explains the switch to academy status?

[@rosiegiesler4705]

Yes 4 schools and 4 shit Senco’s. Not a single one picked up on my autism and ADHD. And it was only my aunt who picked up on my Dyslexia and dyslexia at 11 on my EHCP. I would say I was in the lucky few for at least getting a diagnosis of something but not many can say the same.

[@simonedury3430]

Its discrimination..every child should be helped..if u have a good understanding teacher you child will thrive...getting shouted at barred from classes has a huge affect on a child

[@lauraembleton4363]

has someone who has autism the same thing happened to me where teachers didn't know what to do with me or how to teach me so I've been thou the same thing myself and know what it is like.

[@Ace01234k]

School system don’t care about kids with disabilities it’s messed up and it’s only getting worse

[@beautifulsoul8432]

People in these days are disgusting because when I go shopping with my autistic child my son makes abit nose and people just stair and give my son and I a bad look 😩 only people's gives u hard time 😢 gives you too much stress from school also people 😪

[@apparentpathway]

Wouldn't it be nice for the burden of experiencing an non inclusive education be taken off the pupil and redirected onto ensuring that strategies and reasonable adjustments are implemented within their education throughout their development?

[@emmakao9458]

Both my children have been failed for years and now are going into residential in May this year, They both had there diagnosis but were failed in the right school settings. The story starts in 2014 and I will be taking it to the education secretary once my children are settled

[@mrsymoore1041]

My mainstream schools in the 70’s and 80’s were hell on earth, I was diagnosed autism in 74 and had remedial maths, labelled slow etc. I left school at age 16 in the early 80’s depressed, ostracised, bullied and ptsd. It took me a long time to believe in myself. Even university were horrible towards my needs. Shame on ignorant people in this day and age not taking the time to understand our needs.

[@user-cm2gv1jc7r]

my daughter has been so lukeu she went to secondrey school disshartened , ruined and would mask due to her experience at primry school where she had been on the list for esesmant since seven and still at 11 was still on the list due to her school saying she wasnt and didnt have any symptomns. she went to secondry and masked and realy struggled until year eight where she met the new sendco , where he said she screamed ADHD , autism , anxitey and pda. it was so disshartning that she was struggling so much and we couldnt give her any more support and neither could her primary school . she had been failed. we couldnt get her in to speciel or get or one to one as she had only just then been diagnosed a few months later . a unit opened up at her school wich ment she got quater of the time in mainstream the rest in the unit with one to one support when going in to mainstream and an echp . this is what the hoverment need to be funding more as this is what more and more children are being failed

[@elainewhitelock5347]

There

[@ilovetech8341]

my daughter's scoliosis got over looked because the education pulled funding for physicals. the public schools are a failure. they were more interested in big pharma kickbacks than basic common sense.

[@electro_sykes]

I remeber doing the same type of work as my peers and they got higher marks and i didn't. Why, turns out it was because I had autism and it was to feed the stereotype that people like me are dumb and stupid

[@temme6545]

They should go to a special needs school. It is doing a disservice to both general Ed and special Ed children. There is nothing wrong with that

[@elenamenendezgonalez9881]

I, as an autistic highschool student, don't think that separating children into special ED and auch is always a good idea. We can all learn from each other and I can't imagine a life without my allistic friends and acquaintances. We are a colourful society, schools should reflect that. I think that the problem doesn't lie with the children presented in this documentary but rather with a system that doesn't give teachers the time to be compassionate or learn about their students needs. Schools should be more about kids and their personal development instead of how high they score on a math test.

[@glideagain]

@@elenamenendezgonalez9881 I agree. I think it's easier for people to focus on tests and numbers than it is on how nuanced becoming an adult actually is. Teachers don't have the time or energy to do so because of being overworked/burned out. It's sad