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Is the Department of Education run by cretins?

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  • #32
    GalwayLurker
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭GalwayLurker


    "His mother claimed the school lacks the necessary resources, such as regular speech and language and occupational therapy input, and skills to deal with his needs."

    What school has these resources? From a primary point of view we do our best to contact the relevant people such as SLT and OTs but those visits are few and far between. I feel for this poor woman but she's laying the blame at the wrong door I think.


  • #33
    Bells21
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Bells21


    Schools are being painted as the bad guys in most of these scenarios because they are the ones that are saying enough is enough. We aren't being provided with the resources we need to help the child and the child isn't receiving a level of professional intervention that will have a meaningful impact on their well-being or ability to learn (OT, SLT, CAMHS, NEPS etc).
    The government is always harping on about the rights of the child and yet their policies consistently mean that children languish on waiting lists, in some cases for years. This equates to a child that is not having their needs met. A child entering a school where staff will try their best for this child but ultimately may not have a full picture of this child and their needs because they are waiting on input from the professionals in the know.
    Because the child's needs aren't being met fully, yes there could be potential for frustration or aggression. Yes there is an underlying reason behind this but I don't think that a school should be forced into enrolling/re-enrolling a child who is likely to assault staff or other children, without proper Intervention and planning from outside agencies. Why send a child back into the same environment they obviously couldn't cope within the first place without changing anything or assessing if that is even the right type of environment for that child.


  • #34
    ldy4mxonucwsq6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ldy4mxonucwsq6


    Decision has been overturned and the school will not be forced to re-enrol.


    "High Court has quashed a decision compelling a rural school to re-enrol an eight-year-old boy who was expelled after assaulting five members of staff – striking one with a hurl.

    The judge said and that the decision-makers also failed to take into account the rights of other students at the school to an education, as well as the school’s staff and students’ rights to bodily integrity."

    https://www.thejournal.ie/high-court-child-expelled-assault-4825163-Sep2019/


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