The over-labelling of children with 'special needs' has failed a generation, says education support worker Mary Gilleece. But until the public is shown the human costs of this failure there will be no impetus to reform.
Walking sticks are taking off among teenage girls, and Mary Gilleece spies a social contagion taking hold. They're getting diagnosed with POTS – which, naturally, leaves them in need of lots of attention and support.
Thousands of young people are being paid by the state on condition of remaining 'incapable' of working. It's a tragic, expensive mess – and now they've been betrayed by Keir Starmer once again, says Mary Gilleece.
How did trans and other corrosive woke ideologies take hold? Because we prioritised politeness over honesty, says Mary Gilleece. What began with polite conversation ended with mutilated children and criminalised speech.
The UK's SEND sector is an expensive, infantilising job-creation scheme for middle-aged women that fails to improve outcomes and urgently needs cutting back, argues Mary Gilleece.
What next after trans? As polite society turns on gender mania, Mary Gilleece predicts the rise of social contagions even more terrifying.
