Brian O'Connell

WHAT THE NEED WAS, AT TEN: social, emotional and mental health needs affecting attendance and access to learning. He shut down in lessons after a handover. Work produced fell by about half across one summer term. Attendance 88%, down from 97%, with absences on changeover Mondays and Fridays. AND WHAT HE DID IN THE SAME YEARS, WHICH IS WHY THE NEED WAS NEVER A CEILING: in the academic year of his operation he sat the Thai national O-NET examination at the end of primary school and scored 100 out of 100 in English. Full marks. Nobody in the country scored higher. The certificate is in the evidence locker. A plan that recorded only the half-term of lost work would have described a different child. WHERE HE WAS TAUGHT, AND IT IS NOT ONE PLACE: the village school at Thong Nai Pan; Baan Khun Mae in Chiang Mai, which he attended with both his sisters — an open library read in a circle on the floor, an art room hung with the children's own paintings, and a whole class in the rice paddy planting; and Sarasas Witaed Lanna in Chiang Mai, where he sat the O-NET. The order in which he passed through them is not recorded here, because nothing on file establishes it. Then he taught himself. WHAT REMAINS, AT TWENTY: executive load on multi-step planning, and reduced stamina on long days, which he now manages himself with a study rhythm he set. He self-directed his own secondary education, sat the GED, and has completed two years of higher education. The council's view at this review is that he no longer requires special educational provision to be MAINTAINED BY A PLAN. That is not the same as no need, and the distinction is the whole of the cease decision.

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DELIVERED, AND ENDING. ELSA 1:1 ran 30 minutes weekly for 12 weeks from 2016 and was repeated twice. A daily check-in on arrival ran for two academic years. A calm space he could use at his own choice, up to 15 minutes per use, ran until he left school-based education. From 2021 the provision was study support he directed himself: a written plan for multi-step work and a recovery window in a long day. No special educational provision is proposed beyond the cease date. The university's own disability service is open to him on request, and that is not plan provision.

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