Mark That Disabled Green Party Guy

‘The System is Collapsing’: A father’s plea to stop failing our neurodivergent children Let’s be clear from the start: there is no sudden “pandemic” of neurodivergent children. We have always been here. The shocking rise in school avoidance isn’t about our kids changing; it’s about an education system that has become intolerable for them. As a father to a neurodivergent son, and as the Green Party’s Disability Officer here in Telford and Wrekin, I hear this truth every single day. From parents, from young people, and from the dedicated education professionals who are trying – and often failing – to hold things together within a broken framework. My own son’s story is a microcosm of the failure . He spent nearly two years in an attached ‘hub’ at a mainstream school. In all that time, he attended just one solitary lesson in the mainstream classroom. One. He was out of his depth, and the other children looked at him like he was an outsider – someone not to be trusted or liked. The same he...