Maria Kennedy
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439 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Maria Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going the people who wrote the book don't know your twenty children.
How are we only teaching this specific text?
Um and so I threw those things away.
Yeah, unfortunately, I mean, basically it's it's like banging your head into a brick wall.
They have yet to recognize that there are multiple needs and that neurodivergent children even exist.
And so unfortunately, the predominant philosophy in the United Kingdom, even today, is that often when a child doesn't
Conform to the norm is that they're a problem.
And so my friends who are still there are working with children who have been identified as behavioral problems.
And what they try to do is to control the behavior of the children.
Right.
And so despite the fact that the child may be, may be on the autism spectrum, may have ADHD, but they may be.
Really, really gifted and talented in an area, they might get one pullout class, they might get one activity, but nobody as yet is looking at the strengths of the child and moving them forward.
What they're literally doing is despite the fact that the 2014 Education Act talks about mainstream education in the classroom and
as the preferred way to um to educate neurodiverse students.
We still have like you know schools that are solely for special needs, but the the focus on the students is that deficit model.
So it is still looking at what can't they do?
How do we get them to that level where they can test well?
And probably the worst thing and the thing that's most scary for me is how do we control their behavior so that they're compliant?
Because that's basically what they want.
They literally want our children simply
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