My OperaWhat are "Special needs"?
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:51:49 PM
If you're here expecting something purvey, go away, you're wasting your time here. This is an education thing.
It seems that if school pupils are, for some reason, performing badly, they may be subnormal in some way and require special needs tutoring. So one school declared that every child who they thought wouldn't do well in their GCSEs as requiring special needs tutoring. The government think this is cheating. Not all of these kids are special needs, they say, some of them are just... erm... well, not special needs anyway.
Now me, when I was taking my GCEs I got stung in the eye by some flying stingy thing and came out with a gigantic growth of some kind right in my eye. I passed all the exams I took before the sting, and failed all the ones I took after. I guess my special need would have been a chance to put my exams back by a couple of weeks.
And this prompts me to ask, what are special needs? I can see the afore mentioned school's point. If someone's not going to pass their exams then they are in need of something to help them improve, isn't that something a special need?
Not when the government are paying for it apparently.
It seems that if school pupils are, for some reason, performing badly, they may be subnormal in some way and require special needs tutoring. So one school declared that every child who they thought wouldn't do well in their GCSEs as requiring special needs tutoring. The government think this is cheating. Not all of these kids are special needs, they say, some of them are just... erm... well, not special needs anyway.
Now me, when I was taking my GCEs I got stung in the eye by some flying stingy thing and came out with a gigantic growth of some kind right in my eye. I passed all the exams I took before the sting, and failed all the ones I took after. I guess my special need would have been a chance to put my exams back by a couple of weeks.
And this prompts me to ask, what are special needs? I can see the afore mentioned school's point. If someone's not going to pass their exams then they are in need of something to help them improve, isn't that something a special need?
Not when the government are paying for it apparently.
Nigel CliffCaptainPenguin # Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:46:29 PM
Its just a way of covering up the fact that mixed ability teaching is a load of garbage
Deke # Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:59:18 PM
Considering the amount of research they've done into the different ways we absorb information it's astounding that it hasn't penetrated the education system yet.