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Back in school for a month. The documentary examines whether our children have a chance to succeed in school, even though they are not all the same... Disproportionate children are children who deviate from the norm in some way with their individual peculiarities. Maria Vlčková, a teacher at Štross Elementary School, who was excluded from mainstream education by the system during her school years and was even threatened with becoming a student at a special school, perceives that the number of such children in the Czech education system is increasing. Thanks to what she has experienced, she has understanding for them. We will see children and parents struggling with the problem of difference in the film in various situations. For example, Šarlotka, who bravely fights dyslexia and dysgraphia and is supported by a tenacious mother who never gives up. Other children, whom we will see together with their parents, suffer from dysorthography, dyscalculia or dyspraxia. In addition to the experts, the film also features František Rada, director of Štross Elementary School, Olga Zelinková, associate professor of special educational sciences, Václav Mertin, psychologist, Michaela Kostelejová, teacher and special educator, and others. Documentarian Markéta Oddfish Nešlehová asks the question in her film what a good school actually is, whether inclusion is taking place in the Czech education system at all or not, and whether all schoolchildren must necessarily be the same in order to succeed. This was also asked by educational policy analyst Karel Gargulák and director of the Department of Equal Access to Education and Support for Workers in Regional Education of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Jan V. Mušuta. The overall message of the film is the wish, expressed by one of the mothers, that children, who primarily need a sense of security and safety for their development and education, should not be viewed through the prism of any labels or diagnoses.
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