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Originally Posted by jrhnewark
The DLA they get for one kid is £97.50 per week. Let's say half of that is the care component, leaving the other half (£48.58 ) as the mobility component.
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Children with ADHD will not have monthly appointments ADHD is what is termed as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. These children are hard work as trying to keep them on task is more a 1to1 teaching which isn't possible in the cash starved education of today. We have a few children with behaviour problems not all are ADHD some are just copying others who they think get a better deal than them.
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Originally Posted by jrhnewark
The problem with this is that many schools, as I'm sure you'll know, are working on a stretched budget as it is, so giving extra to ADHD kids would be determental to the 'normal' kids who want to sit down and learn. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's the way it is.
If some of these kids really are that bad, not only will they take away funds from the others, I'm sure they'll be dragging down the overall behaviour of the school. Perhaps it's time to consider some sort of special eduction, for the worst? (I'd extend this to others with behavioural problems of one sort or another, too. Having said that, if there was to be such a school around here, they'd leave a couple of the schools with half the amount of pupils they started with...)
If someone could come up with some sort of wonder drug, I'm sure they would; but they haven't. What are you supposed to do?
Again, I refer to the latter part of what I just previously said.
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Special education that will be a hard one all special schools are on their way out with the children intergrated into Mainstream schools.
Infact if they do police checks on some of these people on benefits they could help the shortfall in watching the children at lunchtimes, become before and after school carers with a member of perminant staff. The Hospitals would benifit from extra help at no extra costs on funds. These people could be palced in areas that have shortfall in staff helping those already there to ease the pressure.