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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 11:29:49 GMT
Is it just possible that any of us can sue LEAs for failing their due care and attention obligations for failing to spot difficulties at school and provide assistance? I don't normally advocate litigation but feel that some such as me have been needlessly struggling for years to gain a career and hold down jobs as a result. Mediaseller.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 13:10:50 GMT
i would love to see someone sue them. - I think it would make them focus on the importance of offering screening to students who are having problems. rather than just branding them intelligent but lazy.
-m
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 14:12:14 GMT
Very good point! My Mum said she took me to the doctor loads under the age of 5 because I never slept and ran away all the time. The docs said I was fine and she was the one with the problem. I've got to admit with hind sight they were 50% right LOL!
Its not just the education though, its the constant confidence knocks. I know thats what made me give up in school. Always being told off and correct when you are doing your very best isn't good for anyone let alone a child.
I wonder how we would find out if it is a viable option?
Mrs M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2009 21:28:21 GMT
Being branded as intelligent but lazy is exactly what I was constantly told. My school report is littered with such comments and why didn't my teachers sit me down and get to the bottom of why I was not doing well? Instead I was left to fail and was condemned to failure. My parents were so embarrassed by my lack of achievement they would not sign my school report and so I felt stigmatized. They were old fashioned you see so they didn't understand. When a when a prisoner is falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit he is compensated for his loss of freedom. What do we get? Less than the Gurkha soldiers I'm sure. I'm not asking for pots of money. Only recognition and positive action for us sufferers and a commitment from the authorities that an improvement in services will be forthcoming sooner rather than later. On the positive side now that I'm enlightened about ADHD I've only got 52 years to catch up on. thanks to all. mediaseller
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Post by roland on Jun 24, 2009 21:45:16 GMT
I too would love to see someone sue a LEA especially for pain and suffering. I still flinch when something suddenly brings back the day in junior school when we were being tested on our knowledge of the times table. We had to stand up in class in turn and recite them. I could manage the 2 times, 5 times, and 10 times, and was praying that I got one of them, but just my luck got called upon to do the 7 times. I didn't have a clue! We weren't allowed to use our fingers to count so I kept my finger tips on the desk and lightly pressed each finger against the desk as I mentally counted my way along through the tables, well that was how it was supposed to work, except I hopelessly lost track of exactly where I was in the 7 times. Eventually the teacher said "Sit down stupid child. Can someone else do the 7 times table for Roland?" Which of course prompted general snickering around the classroom. I hate that teacher's guts to this day
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Post by lostinabook on Jun 24, 2009 22:27:18 GMT
Don't get me started ... being told by a male teacher when I was 9 that I had better concentrate on my work otherwise "the iron fist will come out of the velvet glove" ... A-Level History teacher who undermined and basically bullied me for 2 years - the start of my depression has be traced back to a run-in with the little *&^@£ when I was in the lower sixth ... the words "if you put as much effort into your work as you do looking out of the window blah, blah, blah", "Everyone else managed to get the work done, why couldn't you?", "Lazy" being played on a loop throughout my school years ... You get the idea.
My dyslexia dx was only by chance because my dad knew the Ed Psych and asked if she could assess me (a daughter of a friend of his was having exactly the same probs with her Music A-Level had just been dx'ed, so ma & pa thought it might be worth checking out).
Ma told me yesterday that until the age of 7 I was quite a gregarious child, if a little too energetic and chatty, but as soon as I went to Junior school things changed - despite not being daft I just couldn't get the work done. Was it really necessary for everything to be timed? I don't think I saw one Monday morning break-time in my 1st year because I wasn't allowed to leave my desk until I had finished all my maths questions. If you finished your work in the allotted time you got a gold star on the chart in the classroom. Needless to say I didn't get one for maths. Ma promised that if I got 10 she would get me my first My Little Pony. I waited a LONG time for that bloody plastic horse. Didn't it cross anyone's mind that something was not quite right?
And breathe ... ;D
So yes, can I please sue the buggers?!
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Post by redneck on Jul 3, 2009 15:50:12 GMT
I think i remember from another website that people have done this but I cant think where Ive seen it though, give me a time and let me thjink..
RR
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 20:26:37 GMT
I remember Mrs Duffy who was the headmasters wife and my primary school teacher who slapped me across the face for moving my desk! You see we had been told to move our desks around but then she got a headache but mine was on my foot and ofcourse I couldn't not move it could I ? In Scotland we had corporal punishment so were used to getting the belt !In those days if the teacher hit you then your mum just said you must have done something wrong !I also remember being bullied throughout most of my education as was my brother ! Has anybody been sexually abused as I have and so have most of the women I know with ADHD ! Mine was by the family GP ! He knew only too well that I would not say anything as I did not want to upset my parents and nobody really new about it in those days anyway ! He managed it under the guise of treatment when I was a teenager and managed to persuade me to come to the surgery when no-one else was around ! This is another important reason to have proper diagnosis for girls with ADHD and stop GP's from trying to diagnose depression . Its not only girls who are abused either but thats another story for another time !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 22:45:48 GMT
Hi
We know that from a case here, the evidence was that ADHD was not recognised or mandatory within the ICD-10 (Only became mandatory in UK in 1975) at the time of the young mans educational years. He is now about 26/27. However, the case some of you may remember was the Case of Phelps (Dyslexia case) which went in favour of the claimant and changed education law. Search Case of Phelps.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 23:48:52 GMT
hi sheena,
That's a truely terrible thing to have happened to you!
-have you been able to meet someone with the right training, and talk to them about what you went through?
-matt
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