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bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

That’s a valid point.

What I’m addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don’t work.

It used to be one class with “normal” students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.

The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it’s necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it’s necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can’t find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!

It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the “special” students.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a “special” class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.

When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn’t the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teach.

Mmwhat I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn’t ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.

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