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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 685620" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Nowhere is perfect for special needs. I truly believe that! I went to the UK after a fiasco in Morocco with French people/schools who were supposed to understand and help J but did neither, believing it was some kind of El Dorado for special needs... what a naive illusion that was!! They have it all on paper and in theory - the website of every school in the land has reams about inclusion for special needs, this and that help and service, but in reality... nowhere has J been so excluded, marginalised and rejected as he was in the school in England. Everyone knew about ADHD, for sure, but they treated him as if he were from outer space - refused to take him on school trips or swimming, insisted he have a minder at every moment of the day, even in the playground, twice "excluded" him for his ADHD-related behaviour and would ring me up at the drop of a hat to come and get him when he did something they did not like. I pulled him out after six months (despite his having made friends and his not wanting to leave) because I could not bear it any more. Paradoxically, I realised that France, for all its ignorance of special needs, was actually no worse than the UK and probably better in that they never discriminated against J in this way.</p><p></p><p>Having said that... the tale is very probably different in London, where there is more enlightment and more resources - and I suspect the same is true of the big cities in Canada too?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 685620, member: 11227"] Nowhere is perfect for special needs. I truly believe that! I went to the UK after a fiasco in Morocco with French people/schools who were supposed to understand and help J but did neither, believing it was some kind of El Dorado for special needs... what a naive illusion that was!! They have it all on paper and in theory - the website of every school in the land has reams about inclusion for special needs, this and that help and service, but in reality... nowhere has J been so excluded, marginalised and rejected as he was in the school in England. Everyone knew about ADHD, for sure, but they treated him as if he were from outer space - refused to take him on school trips or swimming, insisted he have a minder at every moment of the day, even in the playground, twice "excluded" him for his ADHD-related behaviour and would ring me up at the drop of a hat to come and get him when he did something they did not like. I pulled him out after six months (despite his having made friends and his not wanting to leave) because I could not bear it any more. Paradoxically, I realised that France, for all its ignorance of special needs, was actually no worse than the UK and probably better in that they never discriminated against J in this way. Having said that... the tale is very probably different in London, where there is more enlightment and more resources - and I suspect the same is true of the big cities in Canada too? [/QUOTE]
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