4 │ INVOLVING AND SUPPORTING PUPILS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS Distance learning in basic and upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic 25 with the teaching assistant to plan teaching organisation as a standard and necessary procedure. Therefore, schools often transfer responsibility to parents in an undesirable way, which is certainly not a way that could be accepted. In upper secondary schools, communication with parents is often not even sufficiently used, and pupils with SEN are often given full responsibility for their learning, even though teachers are aware that many of them find it difficult without assistance.