Intro Narrative (Schools)

Hello, school board directors and leaders.

Do you have parents who are asking you to support a child, but you think it might be too risky? or costly, or maybe even not possible?

You have come to the right place!

Many schools nowadays are challenged by the changes in inclusion.

There are many children who do not fit the traditional teaching program anymore. 

Those children come with a wide range of difficulties that make traditional teaching methods in the classroom very difficult for teachers and also for supervisors.

Schools are faced with a problem if you say no to a parent, parent may get angry or think the school does not provide a good service.

On the other hand, many schools have also been willing to provide help to parents and accepted their child only to face difficulties in the classroom. 

Other children may get hurt. Or the child's simply will not follow the routines in the classroom, and teachers feel helpless and exhausted, which will often cause them to quit the job early?.

Many of these issues are known in the educational sector of special education. 

Inclusion is now a vision where all children can come together and special education is a form of specialised instructions of intervention that helps those children to keep learning and making progress.

However, the world is in a big transition, and many schools were unable to implement the system well, and therefore failed at this undertaking. Unfortunately, they're there. failures have added to the bad reputation that these children have no place in mainstream schooling.

Some schools say they were partially able to support the students, but to what price the expenses have been five or even 10 times the normal educational cost for any other child. This is often draining the resources of the schools, and schools are unable to accept.

Some schools even invent conditions that are outside the law, between the lines, where they are asking parents to hire shadow teachers or nannies, qualified or unqualified, in order to look after their children. 

But this often exposes a big risk, as there are already children who got hurt or injured at school and once police is investigating -  It's becoming clear that well intended was unfortunately not good enough.

So what options are left? The correct way is to hire a specialist business to business intervention partner.

 Those organisations, such as Senbox, who have decades in experience with hundreds of children, like the one child that you just met, or the few children that you've been supporting for the last few years.

Not only do we have 20 times the experience, but we also employ people whose wish it is to help these children and have learned skills around special education and inclusion for 5 to 10 years and have taught 10+ different kind of cases and have several different experiences.

On top of that, we also have specialised tools which are planned in a psychological method that these children can understand and process and make sense to these children and help them to keep learning while staying calm and relaxed and engaged.

And even beyond that, we're not just one teacher, we are an entire team of professionals who is contributing and supervising as the needs of one child needs more than one professional. In some cases, they are up to eight professionals involved from different kind of disciplines that must contribute in order to handle one case well.

Imagine each of these professionals has a minimum of a three-year degree plus several years of experience that is equivalent to someone who is like more than 40 years in the business.

How do schools or parents imagine that a single person, such as a young shadow teacher, wear a few years of experience and no additional tools, no additional training, is able to cope and give a child that everywhere else around the world takes an entire team and hundreds of staff to organise an environment that has shown to help children to prove. 

This is often the reality that schools face and miss.

SENBOX has made a decision to create the most affordable access to all of those tools needed, including access to the professionals to the standard that the children deserve and to the level that parents expect. 

We are your partner and service provider to enable you to do more for less.

And we believe that parents are willing to pay a little bit extra if you just give them a chance. and offer them a fair opportunity for their child to be included in society, but also offer them the correct teaching resources and correct intervention methods that help them to develop further. 

Parents understand that this is not an easy task, and it takes a very high-quality school that deeply cares about children and can provide this environment. Because everybody else already said no. Or even worse has hurt or fild their child. 

Some schools are still stuck in the past and say inclusion would be great if it's possible, but it's not a reality. Those observations may hold true 10 years ago, where technology and understanding was not as advanced as it is nowadays. But the world has changed. Parents have new hope. More professional schools are now accepting children. 

And more schools are learning how to help the children and working with partners to reduce their cost. while giving the children the most possible.

Some schools are not team players yet and believe they're safer developing their own systems. But how many will really complete the goal and invest the millions of US dollars that it will take to create those conditions. Many start out with bold claims, only to fall short in the future, because they run into all of the issues like everybody else. Those are the obstacles and barriers and the reality of the condition of special education. 

One third of the population will need three times the money of mainstream education. 

Those are odds that are often unheard of in mainstream education, and therefore become over and over underestimated. For us, and special education, this is nothing new.

And we see mainstream schools always underbudgeting and under-delivering. and unfortunately keep excusing to parents that they did the best they could.

What often confuses the parents is the memory of the promises to school has made that they are professionals and know what they are doing. And they are the best choice for their child. Only then find themselves again to be led down and disappointed. 

This is a tragic and sad experience that many parents have gone through and became accustomed to, so it's become almost normal and acceptable that 80% of inclusion placements may fail at some point in the future. 

Avoidable, perhaps. But doomed from the moment when schools did not take the professional pathway and instead treated this as an experiment that has been running for the past 40 years, and nobody has been able to beat until they took it seriously.

We hope we will have a chance to work with you in the future to allow children to access the community where you are and let us do the job that we love doing and spend our professional careers developing ourselves and knowing how to help these children to reach the best of success.