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What hope for AS kids Gove's changes

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Today I have been to a meeting at my 14 year old sons school and was informed that they no longer think that he continue his education there.  He has Aspergers and other spectrum issues which has made teaching him a challenge, but has always managed in main stream school. He has been tested and has an IQ that puts him the top 6% of the population and everyone who meets him comments on his intelligence. However due to the changes Mr Gove is introducing the expectations and pressures on schools has meant that exams are being streamlined and classroom expectations are for excellence, which in the main I agree with, its about time someone did something. But for children like my son these changes could be a death to his education. Where is the provision for children like my son who is highly inteligent but is going to be failed by the system because the school is under pressure, under resourced, and so he is sidelined with no other alternatives.  Great, Mr Gove, I agree we need to raise the standards but what about children who do not fit into the box and need a different approach and education that is on the table? My son was always a round peg trying to fit into a square hole but the hole's just got smaller.

Does anyone feel utterly frustrated with the lack of education facilities for children on the Autistic Spectrum.

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  • I don't know if you can claim national curriculum isn't the problem.

    National Curriculum and Exam Boards set the attainment goals for teaching. Increasingly it is a very rigid framework, directed at pushing through the able majority towards high scores.

    What this is doing is increasing the marginalisation of less able children, including many disabled children, who cannot fit into that framework.

    Some schools are offloading their SEN responsinbilities to increase their performance scores, leading to ghettoisation of less able children in those schools attemptong full SEN provision, but inevitably getting lower scores and more criticism for underperforming.

    Added to this Gove and his associates have imposed various bizarre requirements on teachers, like minimum marks to certain disadvantaged groups, to artificially peg performance.

    What this Government is doing to education is truly horrendous. But they have enough support from the electorate to get away with it.

    I think we are witnessing one of the most appaling and shameful episodes in British history. This Government is experimenting with society to achieve ideological ends, while supposedly getting us out of recession, and in the muddle no-one can see the level of damage being done.

    We just have to hope that in the near future people like Gove are called to account for this madness.

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  • I don't know if you can claim national curriculum isn't the problem.

    National Curriculum and Exam Boards set the attainment goals for teaching. Increasingly it is a very rigid framework, directed at pushing through the able majority towards high scores.

    What this is doing is increasing the marginalisation of less able children, including many disabled children, who cannot fit into that framework.

    Some schools are offloading their SEN responsinbilities to increase their performance scores, leading to ghettoisation of less able children in those schools attemptong full SEN provision, but inevitably getting lower scores and more criticism for underperforming.

    Added to this Gove and his associates have imposed various bizarre requirements on teachers, like minimum marks to certain disadvantaged groups, to artificially peg performance.

    What this Government is doing to education is truly horrendous. But they have enough support from the electorate to get away with it.

    I think we are witnessing one of the most appaling and shameful episodes in British history. This Government is experimenting with society to achieve ideological ends, while supposedly getting us out of recession, and in the muddle no-one can see the level of damage being done.

    We just have to hope that in the near future people like Gove are called to account for this madness.

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