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I feel like my child's school hides the kids with autism.

Pynx

Hello everyone, I just wanted to get some advice on what I should do about my child's school. There is a specalised class for kids with autism in a main stream primary that my child attends. I feel like all the kids are excluded from activities as far as I can tell. At Christmas there was a big things for all the other kids like nativities etc and we had to tune in on the schools channel on YouTube to have a look. They were encouraging parents to make a big deal and have popcorn and things at home as they weren't allowing parents in school at the time. So after the last day of term we all got together at home and there was not one thing for the kids with autism. I was left in tears because I felt really angry. All the news feeds is about all the neurotypical kids achievements with photos and all the good stuff that goes on in class ..nothing about the kids with autism. They were giving leaflets out at the school gates for after school activities but didn't give us one because my child has autism. The queen's jubilee was another example. Photo ops at the school gates but we were smiled at but not asked to be involved like everyone else. It just feels like the schools website is full of all the amazing things that all the other kids get involved with but the amazing children with autism are not celebrated for achieving anything or partaking in anything. I feel so upset by this and have mentioned it with no real response. I don't want my child to feel that the differences they have stops them doing things others do. I dont know where to get advice or what our rights are. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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  • This can actually be classified as the school stigmatising, shaming, and shunning the autistic children as well as being discriminatory. 

    Everyone deserves to be seen no matter what they've achieved. Everyone's a genius if we judge them by their talents, what would we think of Einstein if we judged him by his dancing skills? I don't think we would see him as an expert. 

    The education system is to focused on the deficit approach instead of looking at their abilities. If you can, record on your phone images or a video of what your child can do and ask the Head teacher why don't people get to see their talents?

    You could point out to them just how lame and stupid grades are, point out all they passed was a memory test as these standardised tests are unrealistic, lack mundane realism, are just recalling what they were told during the year, no collaboration, no reasoning, no analysing, and no skills for real life situations. Let them see they're shouting out to the public;

    "Look at us, this year we got an A* at a useless memory test, our A*s are going to be useless when we grow up."

    In my view, academics are grossly overrated. 

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  • This can actually be classified as the school stigmatising, shaming, and shunning the autistic children as well as being discriminatory. 

    Everyone deserves to be seen no matter what they've achieved. Everyone's a genius if we judge them by their talents, what would we think of Einstein if we judged him by his dancing skills? I don't think we would see him as an expert. 

    The education system is to focused on the deficit approach instead of looking at their abilities. If you can, record on your phone images or a video of what your child can do and ask the Head teacher why don't people get to see their talents?

    You could point out to them just how lame and stupid grades are, point out all they passed was a memory test as these standardised tests are unrealistic, lack mundane realism, are just recalling what they were told during the year, no collaboration, no reasoning, no analysing, and no skills for real life situations. Let them see they're shouting out to the public;

    "Look at us, this year we got an A* at a useless memory test, our A*s are going to be useless when we grow up."

    In my view, academics are grossly overrated. 

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