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Originally Posted by Osem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-11664558
I've no doubt that the motives behind doing this were good but who could possibly have thought that something like this could ever be appropriate? 
Events like this serve to highlight the reality that catering for the many and often challenging needs of children with severe SEN is a real problem in environments not specifically designed to cope with them.
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Agreed! I've only so far been to one school locally that had facilities for children in wheelchairs and that was a very new build.
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Originally Posted by Taf
Bullying, despite all the school's "policies", still existed too... and the school REFUSED to do anything about any incident.
Pupils who chose to become friends of SEN pupils also got bullied for that too.
Another problem is that many schools have loads of SEN pupils in SEN classes who are not disabled in any way, but either disruptive, don't want to learn or have a history of truancy. They often draw staff away from the disabled pupils.
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Your last point is particularly true..It's also not fair that those SEN students who really do want to learn get lumped in with the severely disruptive who are not actually SEN rated themselves.Just bone idle.
I do like the idea of inclusive education but it cannot always work and for the more mentally fragile it seems a disaster.
I remember a Downs syndrome child who just couldn't concentrate most of the time with the consequence his 'helpers' were doing most of his written notes and he virtually did no work of his own.I'm not sure what he gained from the experience and I felt the whole experience was more for his parent's benefit than for his.
Mind there was an added bonus in that his classmates learned at first hand experience how to deal with a Downs Syndrome peer..I felt that any future meetings they had with mentally and physically challenged people would be positive.
