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'Protecting the neglect'
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Saturday September 30, 2006 17:06 by Annie Shipsea
Listen up folks, please. This is about disability . No! Please dont go away! Try to overcome your revulsion/boredom/indifference or whatever it is that so many of you apparently well-meaining activists and Indymedia readers do when it comes to this issue, judging from the the general level of interest that these reports usually get. Five thousand comments on the disctinction between the SP and the SWP, about four on rights for people with disability. Pardon my bluffness but how about cutting us all some slack in this corner, eh? Maybe even give us some of your time and effort? I attended a meeting in a country locaiton on Thursday evening at which a representative of a major disability association told the audience that, under the terms of the recent Education of Persons with Special Needs Act, 2004 |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6well done. You got the point across & no doubt about it.
I'd like to meet up with you and offer my two cents and lend any help I can.
u s e l e s s g i t s @ e i r c o m . n e t
Remove all the spaces in the above addy.
This will keep happening as long as the vested and private interests run the state,
This will happen at Rossport.
This will happen in Monaghan.(no incubators/no maternity facilities).
This will happen in Dublin.
The vested interests want value for money and they do not care about the rights of
your child or of anyone else's child.
They are allowed to do this because people vote for the present government
because its about tax and value for money. It is not about individuals.
Suggest co-operative group.
Phone tree (of like-minded parents) -nationally , if possible.
Employing an independent consultant and taking them to court under the U.N
rights of the child bill, which has not been implemented fully in this country.
Conor Lenihan (he of the back bench, should be your frst port of call)
Get people to agigtate outside Ms Hanafin's office.
doorstep FF/PD.
Don't let it go.
unity with other people is the first step Annie- use your community voice.
get behind a microphone and shout really loudly- lobby EU politicians too.
use everything at your disposal.
the politicos will be hammering the pavements soon, they like being photographed with kids,
bring your child and a camera - write an article.
Sad to say, your story is repeated the length and breadth of the country. The HSE and DoES are merrily using the Disability and EPSEN Acts to extinguish whatever rights people with disabilities have had. It's about time that the various lobby groups, campaigns, representative bodies and political parties got off their arses and started fighting for the most marginalised and disenfrachised citizens. People with disabilities, their familes, their friends and their neighbours all have votes and if this electoral strength can be harnessed to give an effective voice to the voiceless victims of Harney & Hanafin, there is some small chance that these vile legislative Acts can be undone.
These Acts represent a cynical and deliberate attempt by this Government to dress up their neglect in a wishy washy veil of concern, but without enforceable rights, the reality is that it is bean counters and not clinicians or parents or citizens with disabilities themselves who will decide what services, if any, are to be provided. What a sick joke!
As regards NEPS, NCSE, SENOs and the rest of the alphabet soup of Department of Education fronts, the relaity is they are all bound, by leglislation, to do the bidding of the DoES. They provide the illusion of a multiplicity of opinion, but in the end, they *must* all sing from the same hymn sheet.
Parents are being ground down in the courts. Children are being robbed of their futures. Harney & Hanfin and their unaccountable bureaucrats are laughing at them.
Why isn't the country outraged?
Cearta Daonna - Cothrom na Féinne!
"Teacher's Pet, the Irish Times, 21/11/2006
It is the biggest scandal in Irish education - but you would never know it
from the muted reaction of certain vested interests.
What are we talking about? The educational apartheid which sees pupils with
special needs locked out of some of our elite, fee-paying schools, many of
them run by religious orders - and all supported by some ?80 million in an
annual subsidy from the taxpayers.
All credit to Labour's Jan O'Sullivan, Sinn Fein's Scan Crowe and the TUI's
John MacGabhann, who had the courage to confront this scandal. All three
have a strong record of speaking out on the issues that really matter.
But where were other powerful forces in education?
Not a word from the supposedly left-leaning ASTI who continue - long after
the debate has ended - to direct their fire at "brutalist" school league
tables. What about "brutalist" enrolment policies?
And not a word from the Joint Managerial Body, representing school
management in most second-level schools. Can this silence have anything to
do with the fact that both bodies represent teachers or managers in
fee-paying schools?
Fine Gael's Olwyn Enright was also marked as absent on the issue."
Having permitted two dyslexic students the opportunity to take exams under appropriate conditions, the certificates were marked "All parts of the examination in this subject were assessed except for the spelling and some grammatical elements" and (just to ensure everyone noticed the annotation) ran these two certificates onto two pages to distinguish them from all other Leaving Certificate students.
The Equality Tribunal upheld discrimination and ordered an award.
The Department of Education is appealing. Why?! Is their record of dismal court appearances not bad enough yet?