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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 685674" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thank you. As you can tell, I am quite angry about the whole experience <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Maybe we just drew the short straw with this particular school. From what I hear about other special needs children in the UK, I don't think so, however.</p><p></p><p>The labels are really of limited help (I know they help get services, I accept that). If you stick a label of "ADHD" on a kid's head, you move them towards being seen and treated as some kind of freak. If you say rather that he or she finds it difficult to tolerate frustration and change, finds it hard to concentrate on boring, routine tasks, etc, I think one sees the child as a person who has difficulties that need to be understood. In this school, they went ON AND ON about J having ADHD but they never actually addressed, with sensitivity and clarity, what that actually MEANS... and so they were just insensitive and cruel in their treatment of him.</p><p></p><p>Of course each child is different. Neurotypical or special needs, each child is unique. Conventional schools are, by their nature, not particularly interested in those differences but rather in making children fit into the same mould.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 685674, member: 11227"] Thank you. As you can tell, I am quite angry about the whole experience :) Maybe we just drew the short straw with this particular school. From what I hear about other special needs children in the UK, I don't think so, however. The labels are really of limited help (I know they help get services, I accept that). If you stick a label of "ADHD" on a kid's head, you move them towards being seen and treated as some kind of freak. If you say rather that he or she finds it difficult to tolerate frustration and change, finds it hard to concentrate on boring, routine tasks, etc, I think one sees the child as a person who has difficulties that need to be understood. In this school, they went ON AND ON about J having ADHD but they never actually addressed, with sensitivity and clarity, what that actually MEANS... and so they were just insensitive and cruel in their treatment of him. Of course each child is different. Neurotypical or special needs, each child is unique. Conventional schools are, by their nature, not particularly interested in those differences but rather in making children fit into the same mould. [/QUOTE]
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