So I'm dyslexic and 59 years old but I was "forced" to learn to read which certainly helped with medical school. I suggest that instead of making excuses for not doing something you find difficult, find a way to work around it. Boomer out!

No one is forcing anyone go "go into retail" They do, however, want you to be able to walk out of school with an education. Honestly. It's distressing how fragile people are.

Those are two different things: 1) All these skills are best learned in school, or you won't know what you can & like in later life (going into a job with no preparation ... no thanks). 2) The mental health of the student is indeed something to take serious, we can not forget their well being, they are young people who have to enjoy those years afterall (and learn what they want for their future in the progress).

You could work in those fields, you just wouldn’t excel in them. This is part of the problem of being so “I can’t”-ish. It’s anti intellectual.

@von Funnyname. Indeed, understanding is a two way street. For instance, if a child starts stimming, you have to understand that they aren't doing it to spite you. They are doing it because they really can't stop. In that case, bubblegum, fidget spinners and music? Hella useful. Calming the student down and accepting that they will stim whether they want to or not is better than telling them off and possibly incurring a overstimulated meltdown. Any other case where a student brings out bubblegum? Put that in the bin. Simple as that.

Also I do not advocate for special treatment. I advocate for treatment which will put me on the same level as my peers so that I can properly learn.

Understanding is a two-way street. It's not the school's responsibility to aid a child with their emotional illiteracy -- and even still, they have guidance counselors to help with that as best as they can. They are occupational therapists that are there to help children develop. As far as the classes, I'm not sure what's available now, but when I was in school, we had to take child development. We had to take health, which tackled emotional issues. We had to take psychology also. They can't spend the whole day teaching people how to be okay with emotions, they aren't therapists. They are math teachers, science teachers, music teachers.

However, changing the rules so drastically would result in these new rules being taken advantage of, most definitely. :I

Yep, and afaik these children can get exempt from certain rules with a doctors note in probably all (first world) countries. So why change the rules for all pupils if individual pupils can get an exception?

Just because they’re unable to adapt or grasp doesn’t mean they should be left out. That’s ableist.

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Hey, Canadian School teacher here... we DO those things :) I teach at a Middle School where Emotional Literacy is the actual school goal and teachers do Mindfulness work with the students daily :)

Why should the school do counseling for social anciety? Teachers are not qualified for that, that’s a therapists job. Teaching emotional literacy is a parents job, it’s called upbringing. And most schools do actually teach how to do group work.

Agreed. Instead of making a post about everything wrong, take the time to make a post about ways to fix it. Besides, identifying kids falling behind is the first step to helping them.

@Some Cool Guy if you want a post about how to fix the issue above, all of you can just stop commenting about how screwed certain people would be when they enter the real world and start suggesting how they can avoid that scenario.

I reread that, Jack. As much as the world won't adapt to you, it's difficult for us to adapt to the world because of how challenging our conditions make everyday life for us, let it be going to school or just staying at home worrying about our own personal issues. What needs to be understood is that a life with bad anxiety and ADHD makes things a whole lot more difficult than the everyday life of somebody without said issues." And yes, you can prove you have an issue. One example could be how distracting in a classroom things can be, for those with ADHD, or how bad people with severe anxiety stress over things compared to those that don't. Not everybody is neurotypical, Jack.

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I don't think any one in these comments is saying that we shouldn't do more to level the playing field. I think the issue was with the way the message was communicated, some of the bizarre examples, failure to understand or even explore the rationale behind some of the rules and process and the lack of solutions. As the OP is 15 years old it makes much more sense the way it has been framed and makes BP highlighting the comments with a link to the profile all the more questionable.

Better for a handful few to fail public school than having an entire generation incapable of surviving in a conpetitive environment.

There are three rules of life. Rule 1) Life is not fair. Rule 2) There is no law, policy, rule, etc. that can be enacted that will make life fair. Rule 3) If you don't like Rule 2, see Rule 1. It just so happens I have ADHD. It's difficult for me to read and/or stay focused in meetings, both of which are critical to my job. It sucks, but I cope. There are a lot of books out there on improving concentration, focus, meditation, mindfullness, etc. Most have had little impact. But the reality is that my employer is simply not going to force all meetings to be under 10 minutes just for me. If you grow up only living in your personal comfort zone, you'll never be able to exist outside of it when you're older.

And downvote me all you want, you can only justify your side of the argument by saying "suck it up and keep pushing" without giving any regard to how people that just can't, feel.

I'm sorry but what you're failing to understand is not everybody sees it that way and you think everybody's supposed to grow up that way as much as they are. You need to realize that people with certain conditions more or less severe than ADHD or hard anxiety or just constant overthinking aren't going to want to leave their comfort zone, let it be any sooner or later. Yes, life isn't fair, and it isn't, and nothing will fix that, I agree, but you need to think about how people that don't see it that way. And no one's talking about getting a job with an employer who's going to set up things a certain way just to keep one in their comfort zone, but we're saying that they need to KNOW how it is for us with a certains set of rules, let it be school, home, at a job, or just your everyday life in general.

I know many students who would abuse an education system that gives them a flexible set of choices. I think what this post should have focused on is getting kids with disabilities diagonised early in the education system so that teachers can coordinate with their parents and make some exceptions.

Lovely. Downvoting me. Y'all are just too conservative to hear new opinions about the world and just want to stay with what your also conservative parents taught you.

schools dont care about you you just there to fill a work force when you grow up , they told me id amount to nothing now im a writer

all you can do is be patient and dont make a big deal, i didnt get any help at all