I had the happiest child in the world - now we fight for her life: Anonymous stories about inclusion show the way to a better public school

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*I had the world’s happiest child – now we are fighting for her life:* Anonymous stories about inclusion show the way to a better primary school

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Nearly 150 stories from West Jutland about inclusion in primary school have over the course of a year formed the basis for a number of recommendations on how inclusion can be improved.

Anita Hove Olesen – together with two other parents – started the website inklutoo.dk a year ago. (Photo: © Lars Fjord, DR News)

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Lars Fjord Nielsen ( [email protected] ) 43 minutes ago

A website created by three parents from Holstebro Municipality is helping to show how inclusion can be improved in Danish primary schools.

Anita Hove Olesen was involved in starting the website InkluToo.dk about a year ago.

Here, nearly 150 teachers and parents have anonymously shared their experiences with inclusion in primary school and offered good advice on how inclusion can be improved.

Among other things, users suggest more playground supervisors during breaks, better guidance for all staff in primary schools, and that the child should have a say in their own schooling.

Anita Hove Olesen hopes that the stories and advice can be used to improve inclusion generally in all Danish primary schools.

- There is a need to look at the primary school in terms of inclusion, and hopefully there are also people who will listen to the advice we are offering, she says.

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Examples of anonymous stories on inklutoo.dk

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I had the world’s happiest child – now we are fighting for her life

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He tried to jump out of the moving car on the motorway

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We have learned more than enough about what it means to struggle with the primary school system

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I am a shining example of the success that special schools should be

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The road back is long, but for the first time it feels right

Lotte Hedegaard Sørensen believes that the website has hit on exactly the right approach. She is an associate professor at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University and has researched inclusion for more than 30 years.

- The advice that has been given is, in my best conviction – and according to the research available in this area – exactly the right advice.

The founders of the website hope that the advice can create receptiveness at Christiansborg (the Danish Parliament) and in the long term help improve inclusion in Danish primary schools.

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