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Changes to the National Curriculum

Arran

There is unhappiness with the National Curriculum by both children with ASD and their parents and teachers.

1. Does the NAS respond to public consultations about educational reform - such as the GCSE and A Level reforms a few years ago?

2. Is the NAS legally allowed to openly criticise the National Curriculum or suggest changes to better accomodate children with ASD?

Parents

  • Kerri-Mod said:
    More widely on the national curriculum, we work with other disability charities through the Special Educational Consortium to make sure that those with a range of special educational needs are able to access the curriculum.

    Although it has to be stated that an increasing number of parents of teenagers with ASD are losing interest in the secondary school National Curriculum. Accessing the full curriculum was the sort of thing there was strong public interest in around 2000ish but in more recent years emphasis has moved more towards life skills and social skills (that almost all mainstream schools cannot teach) after mastering the primary school basics. This is in response to an increasing numbers of young adults with ASD who have good GCSE grades, because the efforts whilst they were at secondary school was directed towards academics, but they fall down badly in employment and everyday life because they lack essential social skills and life skills. Their parents see their GCSEs as just a piece of paper that wasn't worth the efforts to obtain. They also think that the vast majority of what secondary schools teach is irrelevant in everyday life and most employment.

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  • Kerri-Mod said:
    More widely on the national curriculum, we work with other disability charities through the Special Educational Consortium to make sure that those with a range of special educational needs are able to access the curriculum.

    Although it has to be stated that an increasing number of parents of teenagers with ASD are losing interest in the secondary school National Curriculum. Accessing the full curriculum was the sort of thing there was strong public interest in around 2000ish but in more recent years emphasis has moved more towards life skills and social skills (that almost all mainstream schools cannot teach) after mastering the primary school basics. This is in response to an increasing numbers of young adults with ASD who have good GCSE grades, because the efforts whilst they were at secondary school was directed towards academics, but they fall down badly in employment and everyday life because they lack essential social skills and life skills. Their parents see their GCSEs as just a piece of paper that wasn't worth the efforts to obtain. They also think that the vast majority of what secondary schools teach is irrelevant in everyday life and most employment.

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