Passionate educators have done their best over the last few decades to graft more student-centric approaches onto the schools and education admin systems they work in. But it's at best an uphill struggle, at worst a Boulder of Sisyphus.
I don't think traditional European schooling is great for anyone, based as it is in conditioning people for the army, factory or office (see Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society). But it's kryptonite for the neurodivergent.
"The medical model term for having extras is 'co-morbidities'. The word morbid does not have positive connotations and since I prefer to think in strength based rather than deficit terminology I like 'co-occurring'. I'm grateful to see this term used increasingly."
#AnissaLjanta, Wild of Brain, 2024
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