Attitudes

Simone Aspis: Quicker Brains

Simone was born in 1969 in Dollis Hill, London. She went to a residential special school in Cheshire from the age of four until sixteen. From there she went on to college and then university.

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Here Simone describes the attitude of the educational psychologist who reviewed her special school placement.

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And then at the age of thirteen I wrote to the Secretary of State asking to get me out of school because nobody else wanted to get me out of the special school. So I think at that point my mum and dad did send me to an educational psychologist to see whether I might be able to be reintegrated back into mainstream education. And there the educational psychologist basically wrote to say that if I came home that I would be – that I would irritate people who had quicker brains than myself.

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