Academies are sometimes euphemisms for a return to segregated education....That is our experience in B.C., Canada. "Special Needs" funding has been cut in the public schools, including resource teachers, etc. "Academy" I s a symbolic word which is part of the broader discourse of letting public schools off the hook for actual accommodations.
Leslie
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Subject: Special Schools as academies, whatever next?
Dear List Members.
I am attempting to write a book about special education, but still can't quite decide on the title, but I digress. I have recently learnt that my secondary school has grained academy status, having already becoming a specialist sports college, and is now about to become a Further Education College (pupils can stay until they are 25).
I'm wondering if they are trying to become an elite institution?
Stop the press!: Isn't the Government again trying to close down these special schools?
Thoughts please?
Becky.
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