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Originally Posted by monel
Well,Ive got to say that I would be more than happy to even see a means tested situation to this issue,where everybody gets a slice of the funding cake,but lets face it,while the government cant even correctly allocate funding to the more accepted groupings of special needs,then we dont stand a chance in hell of ever seeing anything like an acceptable solution to this issue........which in the end means that our future,the children lose out,no matter which wage bracket the families come from...........but might I also suggest that the parents of most parents of Attention defecit disorder children would argue that millions is spent on their kids,cos my son who has an aspect of ADHD in his disability gets nothing in extra support,and never has.......
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I'm sorry to hear that and I hope the situation will change.
However I regularly teach one very extreme case who is now no longer recieving any medication because it had begun to affect his appetite.He has a Special Needs assistant for practically every lesson who cannot get him to do more than sit down(no mean achievement).As for writing anything down well she does all that for him.I frankly see little point her being present as he is achieving nothing and learning even less.It is depresseing as probably your son isn't on the same level but could possibly achieve much more with the right assistance.
However a genius child can be just as disruptive as an ADHD child mainly because they are expected to work at the level of the average in the class and even the extension work available is inadequate for their intelligence and they get bored.As the saying goes the devil finds work for idle hands.
Protect me from a bored genius-they have a propensity for really intelligent disruption especially of the kind that doesn't exactly break any school rules.
Incog.