CAN DO ATTITUDE v CAN’T DO ATTITUDE
early school days
Can Do Attitude v Can’t Do Attitude
I spent two years from 1996-1998 looking for a mainstream school that would both welcome and give Nadia a positive educational experience. I started by looking for primary schools near to our village in Northumberland. We were passionate about inclusion despite an Educational Psychologist report saying Nadia had “severe cognitive difficulties and would never be able to attend a mainstream school.”
Our local schools said “No” and this became a common theme as I persevered and persistently visited schools in Newcastle, Middlesbrough, York, Leeds and eventually to Halifax, West Yorkshire. Driven by the equal rights that Nadia had to an inclusive education, I had heard that Calderdale was one of two local authorities that had signed the UNESCO Salamanca Statement on Inclusive Education (1) so was hoping for a more supportive approach.
I travelled down to meet the Education and…
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