“For a lot of my school life, most teachers didn’t know that I was a carer. I never felt like they cared, or that it was something I had to share with them.”
A Co Armagh student has opened up about the difficult time he has faced as a young carer in education.He opened up about his own experience as new Action for Children research released today highlights the difficulties young carers face in education settings, as they struggle to get recognition of the impact their caring role could have on their journey through education.
“I was told from when he was born I was attached to him as all I did was help him with anything he needed and it never stopped. My granny was told that maybe I knew he had Autism before anyone else because I was there from day one.” “My mum told my form teacher, but nothing was said about it since. And from then until I left school last year any teacher that knew didn’t even acknowledge it to me, all except one,” he recalled.
Diarmuid says he struggled through his school years, dreading the moments he would be asked to explain in front of the class why he hadn’t completed his homework. “No one really knew about me being a young carer, but I will say most people, when they found out, didn’t even know what that was. That hurt because it made me feel that it had no importance at all, which shouldn’t be the way things were for me as a child or anyone,” he said.
“I was the only known young carer in my year group and only three known in the school, yet in my year group I could count at least 15 people that I knew were young carers, but they didn’t know. They didn’t know their situation had a label – and therefore that they were entitled to support.”
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