Public Address | Cafe | Access: Safe schools for everyone https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Nat https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349548#post349548 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349548#post349548 Yes, it absolutely does vary by school district. I hoped my comment about school specificity made it clear that I was aware of that. We are privileged by all demographic measures. (Although we were too in Australia, so that’s no guarantee).

I just finished reading The Prize by Dale Russakoff:…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:39:46 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349544#post349544 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349544#post349544 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:46:51 +1300 Nat https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349542#post349542 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349542#post349542 I regret that I did not make the deadline for submissions to this.

Our son was diagnosed with ASD as a result of observations by our DP at a (Decile 8) primary school in West Auckland not long after he had started school. I can now compare our experience within…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:32:23 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349504#post349504 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349504#post349504 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:05:52 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349475#post349475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349475#post349475 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:04:27 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349470#post349470 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349470#post349470 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:38:04 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349453#post349453 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349453#post349453 One in Five on Radio NZ covered many of the issues. Good contributions from Catherine, Giovanni Tiso and many parents
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/oneinfive

]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:52:36 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349340#post349340 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349340#post349340 This can only give high-decile schools an even bigger reason to cherry-pick and widen the education gap. FFS.

Student achievement to be used to fund schools under new model

]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:36:28 +1300 Berinthia Binnie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349073#post349073 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349073#post349073 Well, maybe not in the _most_ appropriate place….but in the text, somewhere.

Yes indeedy, if you didn't laugh you would cry ; )

]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:42:05 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349057#post349057 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349057#post349057 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:07:38 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349050#post349050 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349050#post349050 Kirsty Johnston from the Herald has done some great journalism on this issue. Here is her latest contribution

I hope she's not in for the chopping block.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:15:55 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349042#post349042 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349042#post349042 The bureaucracy eats the money while the frontline starves.

Hah! And here I am taking timeout from writing an official complaint about our NASC.

We have had an uncomfortable relationship with this bureaucracy for some years.

Finally come to a head.

So its onto 'word' and yet another letter that…

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:57:53 +1300 Berinthia Binnie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349039#post349039 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349039#post349039 cut and paste’ option would be fine…

Too true Rosemary, and on that note I have cut ‘n’ pasted my submission from the last review and resubmitted it to the committee. Everything I wrote last time is still live so where is the harm in repeating myself……

That said, it…

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:25:22 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349037#post349037 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349037#post349037 Done!

Well done!

For what its worth....reading your comments over the past few days, your 'cut and paste' option would be fine....plus...Hilary's right....an oral submission to the SC from you would carry much weight.

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:34:09 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349035#post349035 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349035#post349035 http://www.ihc.org.nz/campaigns/education-complaint/ ]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:04:04 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349034#post349034 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349034#post349034 In defence of my old school friend Catherine. It is a great victory for an opposition member to get such an inquiry as the government holds the majority on select committees so it is unusual such an opposition request is taken up by the committee.

Such a pity your old…

]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:58:01 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349032#post349032 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349032#post349032 Here is her latest contribution ]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:01:51 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349031#post349031 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=349031#post349031 Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:48:53 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348906#post348906 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348906#post348906 observed non-independence of co-occurrence in diagnosed individuals still might not indicate any actual correlation (let alone causal… ]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:56:09 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348905#post348905 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348905#post348905 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:55:43 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348897#post348897 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348897#post348897 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:55:45 +1200 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348884#post348884 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348884#post348884 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:04:56 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348864#post348864 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348864#post348864 exactly as intended.

Yet another case of survivorship bias dictating policy.

I dread the possibility of a special needs kid who falls through the cracks, and grows up to do an Adam Lanza. And were that to happen, those in positions of power would probably make the walls of Rome…

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:29:22 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348861#post348861 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348861#post348861 The systemic underfunding acts as a deterrent

exactly as intended.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:44:17 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348860#post348860 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348860#post348860 co-morbid

= happen together

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:43:19 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348853#post348853 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348853#post348853 That’s three different things.

Three different things that are known to be co-morbid in the psych community.

]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:15:21 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348712#post348712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348712#post348712 So many things wrong with all of this. From my perspective as a parent, the barriers to assessment (cost, geographical, waiting lists, special conditions) are multiple and mean only the most severe cases are even recognised as perhaps needing assessment, let alone being able to access it.

The systemic underfunding…

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:41:04 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348674#post348674 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348674#post348674 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:51:20 +1200 Berinthia Binnie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348649#post348649 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348649#post348649 Forgive me, I am cynical about this whole process.

I have an ORRS funded child, so am familiar with the intricacies of this whole scenario.

The powers that be are fully aware of what is needed to have truly inclusive education. What is missing is the will to make it…

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:05:30 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348648#post348648 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348648#post348648 From my experience, private schools don’t necessarily have the answer either, in spite of the supposedly smaller class sizes. My folks knew I was different, but they kept misdiagnosing it throughout my school life. They've finally understood, but they’re now retired and are unable to help much.

And it’s the…

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:58:15 +1200 Peter Malcolm https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348641#post348641 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348641#post348641 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:35:46 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348613#post348613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348613#post348613 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:26:30 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348588#post348588 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348588#post348588 Thank you, Catherine. From the select committee link:

The closing date for submissions is Friday, 2 October 2015

]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:28:30 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348587#post348587 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-safe-schools-for-everyone/?p=348587#post348587 Discussion from blog post.

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