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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dunelm" data-source="post: 2289757" data-attributes="member: 179219"><p>Not harsh at all. Some schools don’t pick up on very subtle signs. For several years I was employed by a local LEA to “teach” children that did not go to school, mainly young people who had been plonked somewhere on the autism ladder but not on the rungs that most of us frequent and where schools could not fathom that some bodies contained wiring that was different from the centre of the bell curve and therefore needed an approach other than sitting still and listening to someone waffle on for an hour or so. At the wiz bang end - those students set the pace and I acted as a resource. I think that they taught me a lot more than I taught them. We did visit schools, using capitation bribes,  to use science labs and art rooms and I accompanied one student to college for A levels at age 14 and then for his first year at university at 16 where he studied theoretical physics. He later did a masters in that subject, followed by a degree in fine art. Not bad for someone who was kicked out of school at age 9 for being incapable of being taught anything - problem was that he was the cleverest human in the school at that age and no one picked up on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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