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by The Angry Cripple

08 Jun 05:35am

Filed under: Disability, Disability Funding, Education, People With Disabilities, Supported Accommodation

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This week’s Angry Cripple column is from a contributor who is ‘mired in the disability muck’.

Yes, please put me on hold again, I love the music

Last week, I went to enrol my nearly five year old girl into school.

There’s only one state school in my town, and the private boarding school, at $30K/annum is well beyond my budget, so Tamthiliya State School it has to be. The website looked great, and the vision statement said it all “Respect, Tolerance and Learning”. All in all, I was looking forward to her starting at Tamthiliya Primary. I’ve always assumed that schoolkids were well taken care of here, but I guess I was misinformed.

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Elizabeth says:

05:04pm | 06/07/11

Earth, think you are missing the point, not everyone is capable of home-schooling their child, not every child is able to be home-schooled and that if I read the article correctly, it isn’t even about school, (“we waited 17 years to get her in”) it is about dignity and the… Read more »
Earth says:

10:48pm | 19/06/11

Why did the author not home school her child? If my child was tied to a chair and drugged, I would pull my child out and ring the Police demanding criminal charges by laid. I’d be on the State Member’s backside and if they did nothing, off to the media.… Read more »

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