Tackling 'school refusal' by supporting kids to feel calm, focused and ready to learn

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When Josh Bond was 15 he was struggling to make it to school more than two days a week. But thanks to a new program designed to help 'school refusers', he has turned a corner and is re-engaging with education.

"It could be they like starting the day with some toast and scrambled eggs … or if they like playing piano we transition into the school day doing something like that," she said.

It also means the classroom is designed differently, with a separate space for couches and bean bags. "We do a lot of activities side-by-side with young people as opposed to face-to-face because eye contact can be really confronting, especially when you have been disengaged from school for a while," Ms Broadbent-Hogan said."When we create an environment and relationships that are trauma informed, it actually can increase the functional IQ of students in your classroom," she said.Josh wants to be a theoretical physicist or work in the area of chemistry.

 

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Schools are no longer friendly, safe or constuctive in developing communities. They're under financed businesses that put more energy into budgets abd self protection than doing what they should be doing.

Governments, education authorities and schools should have taken advantage of the disruption of COVID to continue to develop better ways to engage students in learning.

Well done Josh & all involved It made my heart sing to see you in this story this morning ❤️ chase those dreams

Never before in our history have we had so much money and resources pumped into schools and yet it’s getting worse. Time to start looking at the problem and it’s not money

meaning...trying to get lazy netflix generation off the sofas where they were firmly put during covid? too late laziness is epidemic, lack of work ethic, backbone and an abundance of victimhood over resilience

Put them all in the armed forces

It’s a really oppressive term, ‘school refusal’.

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