Hi, No offence taken at all, it must be difficult at times for teachers to deal with the mixture of challenged and unchallenged children in the classroom, especially if there is little or no support available. As far as ADHD etc is concerned I don't know but there has been a massive increase in kids born (or at least diagnosed) with problems in many countries, especially with ASD. So unfortunately there is likely to be more special needs kids in classes in the future.

Hi, I'm new here and registered after reading your post. Firstly I strongly agree with your discipline and PC comments but find the later part regarding children with "disorders" a bit unfair. Parents of genuinely diagnosed children some times (and even often depending where you live) get the impression that teachers are not convinced about the child's disability. Kids with high functioning aspergers or autism can appear to be normal most of the time, many kids don't have a diagnosis because their parents do not want the child labeled. With our son, we were offered the opportunity to refuse the diagnosis but we accepted it. I can understand it must be very frustrating for teachers with so many of today's students playing the system it would have to be easy to think it's just another child trying it on. But unfortunately for a few they are not trying it on, and the lack of patience sometimes shown can seriously affect the student ability to learn, far more than that of an unchallenged child. Reading these posts, it's pleasing to see that teachers are as frustrated with the qualifications structure as many parents are. It was a lot more straight forward years ago. At least I can find a more honest and less PC opinion about BTECs, ASDANs and GCSEs. Thanks wildbriz