It’s been a little wet over the last few days. The sheep have got themselves a couple of paddling pools. We might give those a miss. I guess no one will be to upset about that.
I have a questionnaire to fill out about school and it’s services. Looking at lots of areas.
Teaching quality, subject material, classroom facilities, school meals, communication, discipline, bullying, uniform, school transport, sports facilities, IT, websites, outside clubs…..
Lots and lots of areas. So many questions.
What’s revealing is not the questions being asked but those which are not asked. Ones which are never asked. Questions about Autism and Aspergers support. Dyslexia support. Learning Disability support.
No one ever asks. It’s not just our school. It’s across the board. No one ever asks. We live in a world driven by performance measures and league tables. Yet no one ever asks….
I wonder why that is.
I would add those questions to the form, and add the answers your son requires 😉
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That’s an idea 😊
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Nothing to loose
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Absolutely
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Answer anyway!
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I will
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GO GET ‘EM!!
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🤯🙀
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I think you should add your questions and answers them.
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Going to say something
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You should!
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🙏
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It takes too much time, money, and caring, which most education systems don’t or won’t have.
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That’s exactly right.
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Add the lack of support for autusim under teaching quality, or add an extra paper and attach so you can write what you feel has been left out, asking questions why they have.
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I tend to but fear it just gets ignored as it doesn’t fit.
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It probably will and I understand it will get tiring repeating. But don’t let them shut you up. x
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I won’t thanks x
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If they asked, they’d have to address it. Tell them what they need to know anyway. Write outside their little boxes. Even if it changes nothing, do it anyway. (Been there, done that).
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I will. I bet it’s ignored though as it’s on from the designated reply list.
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It is no different here. In the 1970s, having a profoundly disabled son, I served as a parent-advocate on the local school board. You’d be amazed how many educators and administrators know absolutely nothing about children with disabilities … and don’t really care to learn, for those children are considered not likely to succeed at those things people put the most emphasis on … M-O-N-E-Y. That, my friend, is what it all boils down to at the end of the day. Sigh. All I can advise is make your voice heard, don’t back down, don’t let them marginalize your son and others, or force them into convenient ‘boxes’ into which they don’t fit. Speak up, speak out, write to your local newspaper, YELL if you must. Sigh. Forgive me … my mood is black tonight and I’m tired of people falling second to profit. Hugs.
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Git to keep shouting. Being a nuisance. That’s all we can do these days. x
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Yes, add them and answer them and strongly suggest that they are included from here on in. Little steps can lead to big changes.
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Certainly will do
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The answers would not compute…..
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Computer says NO…..
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Yep… In one.
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We have gone from 2 to 3 whatever that means….
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I don’t like to say…..
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🙏xx hope you are smiling today.
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I think what I would have said concerns bellends, breweries and piss ups. BUT I have just finished cooking so I am being nice.
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Anything nice?
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Lol.. well if you think parsnip and green pepper soup, killer cheese cheese and cream chilli in tortilla baskets, with chilli flake baked potatoes, garlic bread and Mexican rice , plus gingerbread men fresh fruit trifle is nice, then yeah , that should hopefully be okay. Happy new Year, my friend, the best to you and Hawklad.
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That sounds so cool. Happy new year my friend xx
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xxx to you both. I must admit the trifle was rather nice….
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I bet it was. xxxx
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we don’t even like trifle and not made it in years and years but it was a modern take on it I’d say.
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My mum would make it. Not had it in 5 years.
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I used to make it years ago at Christmas but this was a very different trifle from the usual… I now need the excuse to make it again lol!
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I must have a go x
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They don’t want to know, because they’d have to pay for extra support staff.
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That’s exactly right.
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Now’s your chance. Is there a section for anything else you want to add?
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No they stopped that….
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Typical!
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🙏
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Beloved, you realise you answered your own question, right? Q) … Why? A) We live in a world driven by performance measures and league tables. Strange, because there’s so much written and encouraged to be read about inclusiveness for wannabe teachers. Some stuff changes slow, some quick, pushing for change sometimes is an uphill battle. Can you imagine an actual battle, where you are on the side in the trough, t’other side up on the hill oblivious perhaps and then “WALLOP!” start listening you lot, we’re not the flippin’ enemy!
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It is a fight. Services are becoming just production line offerings. People getting the services, and people delivering the services don’t count anymore. It’s all about those at the top. Just got to keep going. Hope you are smiling.
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They don’t ask. It would be great for you to add an addendum or add your two cents of what they are overlooking and how it is important to Hawklad’s success at school.
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Certainly going to try and get my points over. Hope you are smiling.
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Incorporate Hawklad’s needs in each answer?
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I was going to say exactly the same, derrickjknight, if the question asks what the weather is, turn it round to an answer about son’s Aspergers and dyslexia. The weather is cold which Hawklad struggles with because his Aspergers affects him in this way or that.
If the question asks about his grades tell how his dyslexia holds him back from achieving his full potential UNLESS he has the right support, which is x, y, z.
It’s a huge effort though and I don’t envy you the task. It just seems a never ending battle sometimes doesn’t it. He’s a lucky lad to have a dad like you on his side though.
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Thank you. Will definitely find ways to stress the point.
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So ask…..
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🙏
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Its either that they are too damn stupid or too damn lazy!
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Both….
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The whole questionnaire seems wildly off track…why not ask about the support parents, students and teachers are getting during this shit-show of a year? I don’t think people are concerned about uniforms, at the moment.
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It’s times like this we need to work together to find ways of making things happen and work xxx
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