Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Prospects for inclusive education after the 2014 general election

Angela Hart

Sat, 20 Sept 2014 15:44:14 +1200

The cost of such equipment is the main issue, also the availability of it and people who know how to fix it when it breaks down. Currently all beyond the Ministry of Ed.

Yes but- you're talking about a small group with specific needs and equipment which lasts for a…

Hilary Stace

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 12:23:48 +1200

The cost of such equipment is the main issue, also the availability of it and people who know how to fix it when it breaks down. Currently all beyond the Ministry of Ed.

Hilary Stace

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 12:22:18 +1200

As communications technology improves mainstreaming will be easier and more obvious for some students currently in units or special classes. We used to assume that non verbal students also had impaired ability – but no longer. At a recent conference a standout presentation was from a non verbal teenager with…

Rob Stowell

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 11:10:10 +1200

the balance to be struck is very fraught.
For sure. The ideal would be parents and children having choice – much more choice than currently, with quality specialist services available to support whichever choice we made. It's not impossible.

giovanni tiso

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 10:52:02 +1200

I'm not convinced mainstreaming willl ever be the best for all children.

It's a very legitimate point, but the balance to be struck is very fraught. Unfortunately units and special schools are also used as a backdoor to effectively remove the option of mainstreaming.

Rob Stowell

Thu, 18 Sept 2014 22:33:34 +1200

Thanks Gio – great summary. I'd love to see the Greens get the portfolio – and I reackon if they're in govt, there's a good chance (it's definitely not on the sexy-portfolios-for-the-ambitious list).
I've also found myself impressed by Tracey Martin – a waste, as I'm just not ever likely…

Josie McNaught

Thu, 18 Sept 2014 16:07:24 +1200

Good post and summary – but have to say after helping special needs students this week at Western Springs College, for their mock exams, all the talk about inclusion etc is wasted if the facilities are at the third world level that WSC has been allowed to sink to. The…

giovanni tiso

Thu, 18 Sept 2014 14:29:57 +1200

New Zealand needs every child to have the opportunity to perform to his or her potential if we are to regain a successful economy and offer a reasonable quality of life for all our people.

A point that is seldom raised – although the Greens did – is that inclusion…

Angela Hart

Thu, 18 Sept 2014 13:33:28 +1200

Thanks for this work Gio- hope it's okay to echo Mark and call you that. You've shown that there is significant progress and that if there is a change of government to the left, we have a chance to address some serious issues in education for children with disabilities. My…

mark taslov

Thu, 18 Sept 2014 12:47:55 +1200

Thanks for this Gio, very helpful, and so dismissive of the Cons that you didn’t even bothered typing the word. That’s my kind of sentence. That IM alliance is problematic. .

Public Address

Thu, 18 Sept 2014 12:47:55 +1200

Discussion from blog post.