🌱 There are categories within 'school non-attendance'

Lumping everything together is a surrender of thought

When we say 'adults', there are all kinds, aren't there?
Calm adults, adults who lose their temper too easily, easygoing adults,
sarcastic adults, kind adults, cheerful adults,
gloomy adults, childlike adults, nagging adults...

When we say 'working adults', there are all kinds, aren't there?
Working adults who work diligently, working adults who live for their hobbies,
working adults on the fast track, working adults who have given up,
working adults full of motivation, working adults just going through the motions...

For better or worse, there are all sorts of people.
If you lump them all together,
you end up with comments like,
'I'm different from that person, you know?'
'Don't group me with them!'

Humans, especially those we call adults,
don't they dislike being lumped together?

Yet, when it comes to children who cannot go to school,
why are they all lumped together and labeled as 'school non-attenders'?
I suddenly wondered.

Is it because discussing them as a single group makes it sound more plausible?
Or is it because it's difficult to imagine, so we can only discuss them in broad terms?

Regardless of the reason,
to put it strongly,
I believe that thinking in broad categories is nothing more than a 'surrender of thought'.

Of course, there are many variations of 'school non-attendance'

While 'school non-attendance' means being unable to go to school for a long period,
there are actually many patterns, such as being able to go to a separate room or a free school.
※ Of course, to be realistic,

if they can go to a separate room,
it seems it might be counted as 'attendance',
so if someone says 'they are not a non-attender',
it's a complicated situation.

While it is certainly best to be attentive to each individual's state,
why not try breaking it down a bit more?

The key point at that time is,not to categorize by cause.
The cause is sometimes not even clear to the child themselves.
Pursuing it too much can be a burden on the child,
and even if you remove the cause, it doesn't guarantee their energy will return.

If so, rather than the cause, why not try categorizing them by their current state,
the child's condition and characteristics since they became a 'non-attender'?
For example, if I were to break it down...👇

If we understand their state in more detail,
wouldn't it be easier to propose other means?
Of course, it's meaningless unless the child has regained some energy for living,
so caution is needed in identifying the phase.

Nothing is solved while blaming someone

I want to say this to those who loudly express opinions
about 'school non-attendance' as a single category.

If you have time for that, let's take a step further
and try breaking it down.
That might be a much more constructive way
to find a starting point.

If they are 'group-averse', try setting up a space for 2-3 people.
If they are 'school-hating', take distance from the school itself, including communication.
If they are 'unable to copy notes', provide images... and so on.

You might be able to come up with some hints.

The children themselves are not necessarily looking for the cause, but rather
I believe they are carrying
anxiety about what will happen to them from here on.

"School non-attendance" cannot be lumped together, and
depending on the situation,it varies widely.

If this were recognized by society, and
if society could seriously consider methods
that match individual situations even a little bit,
I think it might become a little easier for both children and parents to live...

It was a night when I suddenly thought about such things.

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