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To: Education secretary Gillian Keegan MP
Better education for SEN children
The education system is failing SEN children everyday. A lot of our young people are being failed by the system from day one.
They changed how progress is recorded. Now there is no way to see progression, we are just told they are working below expected targets!
GCSE's are not accessible to a lot of our young people. Why aren't there GCSE's in functional maths. The maths they'll need to get by such as banning, understanding bills, money, how to use timetables. What about English they uses literature that is modern and relevant that they will understand.
Making moire college courses for things like hairdressing and art that don't require maths and English.
They changed how progress is recorded. Now there is no way to see progression, we are just told they are working below expected targets!
GCSE's are not accessible to a lot of our young people. Why aren't there GCSE's in functional maths. The maths they'll need to get by such as banning, understanding bills, money, how to use timetables. What about English they uses literature that is modern and relevant that they will understand.
Making moire college courses for things like hairdressing and art that don't require maths and English.
Why is this important?
A lot of SEN children have low esteem and no confidence as they feel like they are failing every year. They fall behind their peers as there is a lack of funding to give them the support they need. Also as a parent it is hard to prove to them the progress they have achieved as the school report year in year out tells them they are working below expected target. But for some of these children they are working to a target that they can achieve so why is the expected level not theirs and not that of their peers.
My daughter has been told she can't do level 1 art as she can't progress to level 2 as she doesn't have GCSE maths and English, even though she is good at art. The year before that told she can't do hairdressing as she didn't have these GCSE's! She can not do what she wants as the system doesn't provide and won't give her a chance.
She is fortunate to be doing work skills which is designed to get her into meaningful work, but, unlike other children her age, she doesn't get much choice in the matter.
Please sign this petition to try and get a better education system with more functional skills at school level to help these young people more to gain their full potential, make them feel empowered and valued from day one. Stop letting the system write them off. Make them asses them in what they can do with a more tailored curriculum for those that can't access the current curriculum for what ever reason.
My daughter has been told she can't do level 1 art as she can't progress to level 2 as she doesn't have GCSE maths and English, even though she is good at art. The year before that told she can't do hairdressing as she didn't have these GCSE's! She can not do what she wants as the system doesn't provide and won't give her a chance.
She is fortunate to be doing work skills which is designed to get her into meaningful work, but, unlike other children her age, she doesn't get much choice in the matter.
Please sign this petition to try and get a better education system with more functional skills at school level to help these young people more to gain their full potential, make them feel empowered and valued from day one. Stop letting the system write them off. Make them asses them in what they can do with a more tailored curriculum for those that can't access the current curriculum for what ever reason.
