18-12-2018, 06:35 PMSwine Wrote: This is actually the third time I'm writing this out now, because my page just decides to randomly referesh
I definitely agree with you here. People who who are struggling or dont get on well in education usually have an underlying reason as to why this has happened; whether that be at home, school or just cognitively. However, there are major issues in actually trying to get the best performance out of them. Many people push them to the side to only then see them act up more and they dont get that support theg need. You can see this done in, for example, class sets - usually the bottom set is "negative behaviour", but then the teachers of their classes lack effort in trying to acyually influence that or find any sort of route to it. I'm not saying it is or should be the teacher's job to mediate such problems, but there should always be systems in place to actually support this type of change.
People just label these as misfits or careless, when a lot of the time that is simply not true.
Then you have people who are in care, for example. They typically have struggles cognitively and at home, which is completely understandable. However, even teachers cause them to feel different and like outcasts - giving special treatment when it isn't entirely necessary for everyone. Sure, if it's necessary to assist in their learning and will really benefit them, I'm all for it - it's one of the reasons why people choose this career; this is included. But it isn't always necessary and just causes anxiety and gives people more labels for themselves.
Then there's people who have genuine mental disabilities who do really require that extra level of attention and help, especially in education and socialisation. They do have the capability to get what they want, and a lot of them know that. It can just be a real struggle for them to grasp certain concepts and learn to express themselves in certain ways. They're actually usually a delight to work with and when they get it, they just seem so amazed by even the things that would seem basic to us.
If I give an example of someone aith autism, they're usually blasting through education, but then find it really difficult to develop friendships and understand other people's emotions and such. They can get things like social studies, which allows them to identify patterns to see how people respojd. This then allows tjem to develop more empathy and understanding for people. It's actually brilliant.
These are literally just some few examples, there's so much more to it. The area involves pretty much everything that I value to be important for development and understanding. Just seems perfect to me
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I actually know what you mean as I grew up in care and suffered from ADHD as a child and also depression since an extremely young age.
In my GCSE's I had all F and U grades after I left care I went straight to college to gain qualifications that I needed for my dream job at the time which was a social worker (wanted to help kids like the staff at the care home helped me)
However I never had any help in school at all so I think what you want to do will be beneficial to so many many young people and I speak from experience there