Monday, July 25, 2016

30 degrees and where is the NAS?

A petition for Boys to be able to wear shorts in hot weather instead of trousers at secondary schools has my fervent solidarity, that can't surprise anyone.

But look at the obvious fact: such a petition should not still be necessary, after at least c15 years of sensory issues being openly known about through the autism scene. The continued existence of school uniforms at all, and of this gender discriminatory cruelty in them, is a mass maltreatment of kids by all the autism charities that have not chosen to campaign against them. The NAS, all this time, has said nothing opposing school unforms at all. Its leaders have sought to hobnob around with politicians and enjoy careers for thenselves based on the NAS just being formulaic and unchallenging in the stuff it says. By it leaving aspie boys, both diagnosed and missed, suffering a bodily abuse. Including in 30 degree heat, as the parent making this petition cites.

This when at the NAS's own conference in Aberdeen on 27 Mar 15, Luke Beardon described personally knowing a case, again through the NAS! of a man whose school coping and outcomes had been unjustly entirely wrecked by this uniform abuse, which made him totally unable to focus in exams.

Maurice Frank

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