Hi neurokin!
Here is a link to a petition you can sign to get rid of the attendance campaign:
Notice how the opposition bench is emptier than the government bench?
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
If you want to complain about this school attendance campaign you can do so here:
Thanks for sharing! There are so many great in depth articles on the Emergent Divergence blog.
Funny!
I think you're right and society just doesn't understand unless they have personal experience of autism. It's the double empathy problem in action.
Schools should be more understanding, given the training they have and the fact that more children are diagnosed than adults.
Everything I read on the subject suggests that there is a growing problem. I think perhaps that the experience of home schooling during Covid has made people realise that there is another way.
These links are very helpful and explain why school have been clamping down more on arriving at lessons on time. Fortunately they have responded to the reminder of a previous agreement, but I still don't think they fully understand how difficult the environment is. It is my view that many people don't understand fully unless they have experience themselves or in their immediate family.
I've just found a couple of reactions to this campaign from elsewhere within the autistic community:
I'll take globalist indoctrination over your white nationalism please.
As a traditional Irish Catholic patriot, I stand by everything that I have said - an immediate return to traditional moral and social values is essential and vital to restoring our society to how it should be
This is why as an Irish Catholic Patriot and even as an older gay man, I’m a passionate advocate for homeschooling - schools today are little more than globalist indoctrination camps, the objective being to destroy the traditional family unit and by extension the nation state - governments now by artificial means and by misuse of modern science and technology, want to have the exclusive right to not only replace the role of raising children, but even of bringing children into the world in the first place, of which transhumanism is but one tiny example, which itself is Satanism dressed up as science - all of it must be called out and robustly challenged at every opportunity in the interest of future generations and the continued survival of white western civilisation as all of it is against the laws of nature and against the laws of God
If the government wants autistic children to attend school then they need to do a lot more to make schools autistic friendly places and provide adequate support.
So many of the children who are deemed 'school refusers' will be in burnout precisely because of their experiences at school. Forcing them to attend is going to make the situation worse not better.
Despite all the years of supposed progress in identifying and understanding autism, schools appear to still be as hellish an environment as when I attended many years ago. If Covid has taught us one thing it's that technology can be used to deliver education in a different way. Now could be an opportunity to purposefully change things, rather than just seeking to go back to how things were pre Covid.
This recent post by articulates well how education away from the school environment can be much more effective for an autistic young person.
It's an issue close to my heart. any advice on this related item would be greatly appreciated.
community.autism.org.uk/.../advice-please---home-school-vs-sen-school
I don’t believe in homeschooling as such but I don’t believe what the government wants to do either. My time in school wasn’t great tbh I was held back in a special needs class complaining that the work was to easy sometimes I didn’t want to go in. I think there should be a way where the government and parents meet in the middle not sure how though.
Appalling
92% neurodivergent? Not rocket science, is it? Time to think about creating educational environments which don;t make our kids anxious and meet their needs as autistic, ADHDers etc rather than shaming and blaming parents.
The fines and all that are for that tiny minority of parents whose kids aren't ND or poorly with anxiety and who just don't care whether their kids get an education.
Very good point! Nicely put!
