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<blockquote data-quote="ravensmitten" data-source="post: 2681800" data-attributes="member: 566099"><p>Thank you so much for this post, yes it was a long time ago for me so as I say I have biases and preconceptions that mightn't even be true these days.</p><p></p><p>The schools and teachers looking from the outside in do seem a lot more clued up now, back in the day would just be ghettoised into educationally subnormal (what a horrific term) and what was special schools, which seems well meaning but I think has its own problems of being an outsider and then trying to integrate into a "normal" world outside of that when you are on your own, but I'm guessing a lot of that has changed also.</p><p></p><p>Must be difficult, I wasn't disliked though as I tried to use my troublemaking for 'good', but I also marched to my own beat a bit, and had a lot of energy, so much it wasn't the right setting for me - sat down for almost 6 hours a day, being forced to do things I didn't want felt like some kind of prison for me at the time. In hindsight, I didn't really have the tools or when I asked I wasn't allowed to run 10 laps of the playground before doing lessons or everyone would naturally want to do it (probably not a bad idea, but I'm no expert and probably wouldn't work for some either.) but i did it anyway as I HAD to, which led to me getting into trouble.</p><p></p><p>I did speak to her teacher and mention I think it might be something that rings true, but then it might just be because she's my daughter and has picked up on stuff because of the way I'm parenting her, so am aware it might not even be that at all. He said that made sense for her to have that as he's seen the focus thing in action and maybe to speak with the GP for a referral, but would take it into consideration now it makes more sense rather than her being a bit "ditzy" (he didnt say that and I don't really like the term, but I reckon a lot of girls might suffer the same accusation.)</p><p></p><p>I of course have a very spicy brain and have been milling it about for far too long and procrastinating on it as its a pretty big thing.</p><p></p><p>Good call on before secondary as the classes are bigger and there's also a lot more self managing to do, thanks [USER=511004]@mouseee[/USER] :0)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ravensmitten, post: 2681800, member: 566099"] Thank you so much for this post, yes it was a long time ago for me so as I say I have biases and preconceptions that mightn't even be true these days. The schools and teachers looking from the outside in do seem a lot more clued up now, back in the day would just be ghettoised into educationally subnormal (what a horrific term) and what was special schools, which seems well meaning but I think has its own problems of being an outsider and then trying to integrate into a "normal" world outside of that when you are on your own, but I'm guessing a lot of that has changed also. Must be difficult, I wasn't disliked though as I tried to use my troublemaking for 'good', but I also marched to my own beat a bit, and had a lot of energy, so much it wasn't the right setting for me - sat down for almost 6 hours a day, being forced to do things I didn't want felt like some kind of prison for me at the time. In hindsight, I didn't really have the tools or when I asked I wasn't allowed to run 10 laps of the playground before doing lessons or everyone would naturally want to do it (probably not a bad idea, but I'm no expert and probably wouldn't work for some either.) but i did it anyway as I HAD to, which led to me getting into trouble. I did speak to her teacher and mention I think it might be something that rings true, but then it might just be because she's my daughter and has picked up on stuff because of the way I'm parenting her, so am aware it might not even be that at all. He said that made sense for her to have that as he's seen the focus thing in action and maybe to speak with the GP for a referral, but would take it into consideration now it makes more sense rather than her being a bit "ditzy" (he didnt say that and I don't really like the term, but I reckon a lot of girls might suffer the same accusation.) I of course have a very spicy brain and have been milling it about for far too long and procrastinating on it as its a pretty big thing. Good call on before secondary as the classes are bigger and there's also a lot more self managing to do, thanks [USER=511004]@mouseee[/USER] :0) [/QUOTE]
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