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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The FF/PD ,now FF/PD/Green emphasis has been about figures and providing fodder to
the 'knowledge economy'. The engineering sector has suffered in Ireland, the apprenticeship
sector has suffered. The removal of the Traveller Capitation grants by Her Highness
The Minister Of Education and the reduction of the Irish Language programme in Primary
schools indicates an educational policy which is 'anti' learning. It is about 'schooling' the
kid to fit into the chipped shoulder analysis of what a modern irish economy should look
like- everyone in tech or pharm.
Relentless mainstreaming of kids with learning difficulties has led to a lack of correct
resourcing in the educational psychology service where kids are identified early with:
dyslexia/dyspraxia/ADHD and the whole gamut of aspherger's syndrome (etc)
They don't want to be mainstreamed.
Most of them want to develop their faculties with computers/arts/language/aninmation/
construction. The engineering sector is starved of new apprentices and the old
anco/fas apprenticeship schemes are tailored to provide maximum money to employers
rather than recognised grades. But that is the FF way- leave the mess for someone else to
clean up. Starve the economy of craft based trade and make parents pay for the privilege
of a state education. It begins with recognising the right of the child to education that
suits them and free pre-school care.
Mary Hanafin has not:-
1. Provided an adequate number of educational psycholgists to kids in need.
2. Recognised the futility of mainstreaming kids with special needs.
3. Addressed the concerns of the National school Principals in relation to
forcing the school to raise funds.
The FF regime has abdicated in its duty of care to the child.
I suggest a middle way is best. Quite honestly all kids have special needs in some sense & some model responses (for bullying at least) are on closer examination not really the best ones. I'll try and illustrate this with a true anecdote.
Yesterday at a summer camp organised by one of those international schools which have branches throughout the world where "overseas" Americans as well as rich locals send their brats, one child bit another while they were floating around in the swmming pool. They're both in the pre-school age group. Within an hour an emergency meeting of all the permanent staff was called to review the incident with the monitors & on scene medical officer and child psychologist. My girlfriend is on the staff. Neither of the kids (bitten or biter) have attained the "age of reason" or to put in other way - their world is one of tooth-fairies, santa claus & Dr Seuss. By 18h00 a report had been prepared on the aggressor [sic]. He's four years of age and not even properly enrolled (as his parents want) in this "august & reputable" school but he has the label "potential psycopath" on his "permanent record" next to his background status as "adopted Russian" with "emotional difficulties" & "social integration problems". By five past six the other kid (the bitten one) was collected by its nanny complete with walt disney plaster on its iodined cheek & brought home to its house. It fortuanately was decided it didn't need a tetanus injection. By a quarter past six its parents had been located on the Egyptian riviera and informed of the attack [sic] & a fax had been despatched to their blackberry outlining policy on "bully management" & spelling out the small print on the insurance policy. What really got my girlfriend & most of (if not all) of her colleagues was the utter injustice & hyperbole. But they see that everyday. Teaching if it does nothing else confirms the lie of "meritocracy" and drives home the truth of class oppression & inequality. If that's what life is like for kids starting out in schools young FG couples or dare I say it - Dun Laoighaire junior regatta parents wistfully envy - then maybe us lot on the "rough & tumble" side of the class divide are truly better off in some senses.
Thus I attempt to reiterate by real life example how alienation begins at a very early age & the true nature of bullying is often missed. They've labelled him a psycopath! - probably end up in the CIA like his da. sure he's a great future.
Both bully and bullied are victims. Rough & tumble, knocks & scrapes & the occassional bite are normal.
kids cannot get:-
1. a reader for state exams.
2.correction by someone who 'gets' the issue of isolation in an 'academic' environment.
3. extra time.
4. dropping a language (mostly Irish/gaeilge)
The Dept of ed sees maybe 2-5 of the estimated 50 kids p/a in need of intervention.
The budget in the dept of ed is tailored to the tailored figures.
Intervention depends on the consent of child and parent.
if the kid does not get the label- the result is that they are mainstreamed and no allowance
is made for the difficulty, but thats just working on the coal-face of experience.
The DAI has not in the ten years of FF and its varied dance partners had a minister
for education attend and address its conference.
The DAI- Dyslexic Assoc. of Ireland, therefore has to perform the expensive interventions
through its organisation by itself in order to relieve the kids from the mainstream and
get them the label so that the half hour a day of remedial is a breathing space to
learn phonics/computers or just do a bit of art.
In some cases the kid who wears the label begins to recognise the potential of it for
accepting their difference and just getting on with it- and mostly they say, its cool
enough to be so because they are getting the help they need- out of the mainstream.
If that recognition was taken one step further and admittance of different qualities
and levels of talents were acknowledged , less bullying would take place.
The 48 or so students per school, per year who are denied the right to wear the label
are suffering intensely with their difference and having to sit in exam halls with
hundreds of kids and watch the words jump around whilst a little voice in their head
tells them they're thick...(and they are not, they just use a different part of the brain
to problem solve)