Educational funding

​Just heard on the TV lunchtime news that due to more funding cuts schools may have to cut down the number of teachers and teaching assistances they employ, this angers me greatly as I went to a special needs school, and each class had its own dedicated teacher and teaching assistant, maybe because it was a special needs school it was able to access increased funding, therefore, could employ more staff than the average school.

What worries and frustrates me is that the school I went to was closed and merged with another school whose pupils have physical disabilities, the educational boards say if a pupil has been statemented with a special need they will give the school extra money to support that child through their educational pathway, I know of many people who have gone through the school system and even through university knowing that they struggle but have never received the help and support they needed, all the way through feeling worthless and stupid. Hearing of these cuts only increases my frustration that if the funding is cut the people who will suffer will be the children who aren’t coping with traditional teaching methods.

Maybe this is a time for the education sector to rethink its models of learning, to accept one size doesn’t fit all, and that those of us who are dyslexic can excel if we are given the right support and time.