I would have liked Square Pegs to offer more solutions to help schools work within the very real constraints they have. Square Peg is also a book for parents and educators who are looking for answers for helping kids survive and thrive in a failing education system. Hopefully our educators will pick up a copy of this book over the summer and gain some valuable insight into the best way to improve our schools. So take your time about introducing that because medicine should only be used as a last resort, not a quick fix for the parents.

Intense interests and repetitive behaviour are often seen along with differing sensory experiences'. I'm not sure you can change the whole system to supposedly meet the needs of a handful of students and the expense of all students. With a distinguished blend of humor, humility, and practical advice for nurturing children who are a poor fit in conventional schools, Square Peg is a game-changing manifesto that provides groundbreaking insight into how we can get the most out of all the students in our classrooms, and why today’s dropouts could be tomorrow’s innovators. It is a nice way to summarize what points Rose believes are the most important from all the information and personal anecdotes he provides. It contains practical advice, useful resources and, most importantly, a poignant insight into not fitting in.It should also give educational policy makers and regulators much food for thought in their oversight of our educational system. If you have a child with dyslexia or ADD or Asperger's you probably already know that your child doesn't do well in the current educational system. His teacher failed him, thinking he had cheated, since Todd didn't try on any assignments, as a general rule. While there were certainly critiques of the system within its pages, Square Pegs forced me to think deeply about the children of its eponymous title and their schooling experience. But, as the nine-year-old at the start of this review shrewdly points out, treating everyone equally doesn’t make everyone happy.

The educational system we work in has, in my opinion, been created for the round pegs who fit perfectly into the round holes and yet the young people in our schools are all unique and are not carbon copies of each other.This was disaster in History, and caused a lot of trouble in Science, where my marks never nearly reflected my grasp of what was happening. Not all young people are the same and the sooner we learn how to teach and support them in the way they each need, the better it will be for all.

The two authors primarily act as editors, as the book is a collection of works from a wide variety of over 50 individual contributors, including headteachers, lawyers, parents and people with lived experience. Finding a way to use current technology to help all children individualize their education could potentially transform education and help many overcome their special needs or limitations. Yes, it takes effort, often at the beginning, to change mindsets but once in place, things should improve. I got this book because of this NPR article, "Standards, Grades And Tests Are Wildly Outdated, Argues 'End Of Average,'" Feb.submitted to several DfE consultations, including the 'behaviour management strategies, in-school units and managed moves' consultation in August 2021. I think it might be my new teaching mantra as I have recommended it to several of my colleagues already.