This article was in the Observer on the 20th December 2009 and was about the difficulty inherent in getting a child to a school that would supply the child’s needs, but due to finance councils want to send pupils to their own mainstream schools to receive an inadequate education that doesn’t. It also looks at schools being closed due to finances.
A few years ago I sat in a school hall and listened to irate parents haranguing an education bigwig. The mood was simmering. The primary school was a haven for children with moderate learning difficulties, a special school. Ofsted had praised it. It was protective and nurturing. The children loved it and progressed. Parents were delighted. Yet the council wanted to close it.
The council’s plan was to farm off pupils to other schools, even sending some to mainstream schools. Parents shouted that their vulnerable children would be bullied and failed by teachers who didn’t have the resources to cope. Choice words were flung at the council. “Inhuman” was a printable one. One parent leaped up and demanded: “Why is it you think you know better than we do what’s right for our children?”
for more – http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/dec/20/special-needs-support-education
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