- Target:
- Julia Guillard (Australian Prime Minister) and all heads of Australian States and territories
- Region:
- Australia
My son is 9 and from the start of school there was no place
for him to "fit in" He has Aspergers, ADHD, Reactive
Attachment disorder, speech and language issues and
profound sensory processing issues. He however does not
have an intellectual disability so he is not eligible for Special
school.
He is a gorgeous boy, with so much potential to learn in
the right environment. The QLD school system has let him
down so badly he is now attending a private school, paid for
by his family and by donations, who needs the funding he
receives from main stream school (even though he only
attends there 4 hours a week, with me present) to be used
for a Teachers aide for him at his new school, where he
feels safe and is completing school work and attending
occupational therapy and speech therapy as well. My son
is extremely high needs and needs one on one, which this
school is unable to provide, BUT can provide the security
and safe environment for him to learn grow and prosper.
Dear Prime Minister and Premiers of Australian States and
Territories.
In my time in mental health and disability and being a
mother of a child with disabilities I have learnt the struggle
that comes from red tape when a child does not fit into a
category you have assigned. My child and other children
are not black and white with their diagnosis and neither is
their education or support needed from the
Disability/Mental health sector.
My son has been discriminated at main stream school by
students, teachers and the principal. He has been let down
by Education QLD, by teachers not believing in his
disabilities, not taking his needs seriously and he has fallen
through cracks both in Education and daily needs.
My son, has both ASD and a Mental health illness, yet each
funding cancels itself out and by the time teachers decide
what funding is best my son has been suspended 27 times
in a year, my pleas of positivity and his sensory issues
ignored and him being bullied and an outcast both in the
playground and the school room.
I am asking that you look at the names on this petition
and take into consideration each child's individual need for
schooling and stop trying to put them into category's
where they do not fit. I believe in integration but the
teachers are ill equipt, the class too big, the room to loud
for my son to even spend 10 minutes in.
The fact my son has the potential to read and write and
has not been given that right in Australia. It is
discrimination, bullying, red tape and a gross misjustice
that children in this country with disabilities are not being
given the right to learn in the environment that suits their
needs.
My son now attends a private school, we pay for his
education 3 days a week and donations to the school BUT
my little boy needs one on one support in this school that
is the perfect environment for him to learn. He has ASD
funding that is not being used currently at his Mainstream
school, I am asking that the government use their pens to
free up this resource and provide a teachers aide so my son
can continue his schooling and learn in an environment
safe from harm and discrimination
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The Funding for children with disabilities in School petition to Julia Guillard (Australian Prime Minister) and all heads of Australian States and territories was written by Kylie Harvey and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.