Not much probability about it.
Autistic teenager kicked baby in the face
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Not much probability about it.
No but seriously a lot of this help with 'special needs' gets abused.
My mum is a special needs teacher and even she thinks some of it is rubbish.
For example, my housemate is doing part english for her degree and got a good mark in english A-level and she applied for a dyslexia test, failed it by one mark, and now gets £1000 of free stuff aswell as special marking. There is nothing wrong with her.
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ok im editing this, it was not very nice lol.
I worked for a term last year with an autistic boy in a comprehensive school.... quite severely on the scale, excellent 95% of the time to be fair, however when he "overloaded" on thought processes, he lashed out, not at anyone in particular, it could literally be a "windmill" moment with arms flailing, and no contact with anything, but then he settled and got on with work again.
Saying it's disgusting that he got away with no charge is out of order imo, because it's an unfortunate situation, the autism prevents in some cases the individual from realising right/wrong, unless someone has specifically said a number of times in past that behaviour is unacceptable.
It's more an accident/incident that won't happen again, and the child was lucky, but blaming the person for behaviour that they have no conscious control over is unfair.... Try blaming the local health board for letting him be unsupervised in the general community if he was a known risk....
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Why do we have manslaughter then?
No he should not go to prison but guardians should be punished for not supervising him.
typical scenario that annoys the **** out of me...
But heres the thing... would you accept the £1000 if you were in her position?
Pretty certain I wouldn't, but I can see why people do
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For reasons where there is no intent to kill but a death results from one or more's actions.
Why ? How are they culpable under the law ?
Well, I do have the choice to take the test. Even though i'm pretty sure i'm not dyslexic I could get my mum to show me how to fail it.
But I would rather not be labelled with a rubbish 'condition' that was simply created because physcologists and education ministers have too much time on their hands.
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By what you said then that boy's guilty. Is it possible he could be tried for manslaughter? I dont think he should as he doesnt have control of his own body.
Pretty sure i'd pass it without faking... i'm awful at spellng, which im putting down to hardly any practice (hardly any reading... always hated writing)
Whatever, what they were doing was verging on abusive. They were safe in the knowledge that little johnny when he went home wouldnt be able to tell Mummy or Daddy that what he did that day was going shopping. It wouldnt happen in a state school so why should a special school be any different. There would be outrage if kids were being taken to shopping centres as part of the school day if they were in a mainstream school. They did it because they could get away with it, which is wrong.
Not call for the roll eyes at all. Thats the tell tale sign of someone who can't be bothered to listen.
Even if thats what they were doing, it still doesn't make it your business.
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This is awful.
Makes you wonder where the autistic persons carers were.
Personally, I would have floored the guy if he'd done that to my son. And no, I wouldn't have stood there a few seconds weighing up the pros and cons of my actions before hand.
I just watched someone stamp on my kid.
Makes you wonder where the autistic persons carers were.
Personally, I would have floored the guy if he'd done that to my son. And no, I wouldn't have stood there a few seconds weighing up the pros and cons of my actions before hand.
I just watched someone stamp on my kid.
What a great attitude, if that's what the "carers" where dong with your child when you trusted them to look ater them in school wouldn't you like to know?
Although it may have been they where picking out furniture/decorations for the school...
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Touché.Technically, what he did isnt your business either
Nothing at all to do with too much time on their hands, just words too big for small minded idiots like yourself to accept that some people have difficulties which impact their life, just because they have all limbs/sight/hearing/speech doesn't mean that there is an impairment....
I suppose from your comments above that you needing your mum to help you fail a test means that you are aren't intelligent enough to do the research yourself
The reality is that 60 years ago, schools didn't have any of the support facilities that they have now, and so issues like dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc, weren't getting recognised, but now because people are becoming skilled at recognising issues, and testing is becoming more standardised, then it is easier to identify individuals needing that additional support. Maybe you'd suit back a century or so ago.... where you could burn left handers as witches too
A job I worked a few years back, we had an autistic guy of about 18 who would do a few hours a week doing some sweeping.
It's the only time I've ever spent around someone with any kind of disability, so it was an eye opening experience. I think the best way I can describe it is someone who looks like an adult, but has the mind of a toddler.
It's the only time I've ever spent around someone with any kind of disability, so it was an eye opening experience. I think the best way I can describe it is someone who looks like an adult, but has the mind of a toddler.
Sadly they werent. Plus when the head contacted me after he had investigated they had clearly been caught out. No one was interacting with the children so it wasnt a school trip, they were just out to fill their trollies.
As I said there would be uproar if this happened in a "normal" school.
Nothing at all to do with too much time on their hands, just words too big for small minded idiots like yourself to accept that some people have difficulties which impact their life, just because they have all limbs/sight/hearing/speech doesn't mean that there is an impairment....
I suppose from your comments above that you needing your mum to help you fail a test means that you are aren't intelligent enough to do the research yourself
The reality is that 60 years ago, schools didn't have any of the support facilities that they have now, and so issues like dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc, weren't getting recognised, but now because people are becoming skilled at recognising issues, and testing is becoming more standardised, then it is easier to identify individuals needing that additional support. Maybe you'd suit back a century or so ago.... where you could burn left handers as witches too
What does that have to do with anything? That just means i'm lazy. Or is there going to be a mollycoddling special version of laziness with which kids can get sympathy and have excuses for doing crap at school.