I'm with joolz...
I have responsibility for the special needs kids in the school and with the second job, responsibility for training the teachers to cope with the difficulties they have.
Take for instance the autistic children with severe behavioural difficulties... they have a mental illness that needs supporting within the classroom environment. My job is to write bids to ensure that these children recieve the correct funding.
I become disaffected when I have to write a bid for little johnny who's parents are on income support, swearing endlessly at him at the classroom door, clipping him round the ear whilst smoking a Fag and calling him a little F**k, allowing him to terrorize the children in school...Then they claim disability living allowance because they reckon he has ADHD...when all the time you know and they know that their appalling parenting and the lack of boundaries are the problem and he is just a little 5hit!
AND knowing that The bid you are writing will take money away from those children that REALLY need the social, emotional and academic support to succeed in education.
Sometimes I really have to shake my head at this government....
