"They made the right noises, eventually, but months later, nothing has changed, and some of his form teachers STILL do not understand that he has dyslexia. Ho hum...."


Well, as someone who was yesterday teaching in a secondary school's specialist SEN unit for part of the day, and giving one-to-one classroom support to another SEN student for part of the day, my perspective is rather different. The provision for kids with SENS in schools, in my experience, is amazing these days. And before anyone starts going on about "privileged" schools, this was inner-city Nottingham.

Perhaps the way to ensure that children with SENs in schools (not to mention their teachers) have the support they need is for all the gainsayers to do some training and go into schools as Learning Support Assistants - god knows the schools are crying out for them. It's certainly more productive than constantly criticising schools, who are doing their best, the system, which exists only to ensure that all of society is educated to a certain minimum standard, and worst of all teachers, who do a bloody hard and thankless job and only deserve our gratitude.