Posts by Hilary Stace
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This deserves its own post, but not for me to do. I'm just another problem bipedal. But us bipedal humans should be aware of the problems we cause to those humans who aren't. http://badcripple.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/on-space-and-discrimination.html
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Hard News: Stories: Home, in reply to Russell Brown,
Several kereru pairs around here - often happily sitting on the power lines. You can hear them fly - they really do move with the 'grace of a frozen chook'.
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Thank you Rosemary. I am going to a meeting about education stuff tomorrow and these are useful stories to take with me. We need inclusion for all, not just the easy kids. (And Giovanni wrote most of the article. I mainly found the references)
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Hard News: Stories: Home, in reply to JacksonP,
Hope your foot is healing and that you don't have lots of steps to reach your house.
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Giovanni and I wrote a bit about special education in this publication. http://ips.ac.nz/publications/publications/show/366
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My ancestors started arriving here in 1823 and by mid century both lines were well established. Yet both my parents were taught to call Britain 'Home', and I remember as a child being puzzled when elderly relations used that term for a place they had never visited.
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I'm really attached to home. I have an imaginary rubber band which links me to my patch of ground (my turangawaewae). With a bit of preparation it can stretch but readily brings me home. I've lived in three houses in the street I was born in, now halfway between the first and second. I'm never going to leave. For a few years I lived further down the hill, not far away. This attachment to lifelong place is very rare for Wellingtonians who have mostly come from somewhere else.
I've been away from home for a couple of days for a quick trip to Christchurch. The travel and touristing was interesting - but that was long enough.
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Kirsty has tweeted the correction and said she can't say any more. But it says volumes. This is what journalists are supposed to do, not get squashed for revealing unethical processes and politics. The trail revealed in the OIA says enough. Not blaming the Ministry of Ed spin people as they are just doing their jobs. The fault is obviously higher up.
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There was a really good piece of investigative journalism by Kirsty Johnston in the Herald this morning about the government forcing ERO to rewrite a report about the early childhood sector. She linked to OIA material. I even posted it on Facebook. However, during the day is was removed completely from the Herald website. The link now goes to a picture of John Key cycling. Fortunately Education Aotearoa had captured it before it disappeared
http://www.ea.org.nz/what-happened-to-the-nz-heralds-front-page-story/ -
Talked to my submission to the Education and Science Select Committee this morning. In my supplementary I suggested that educational exclusion for disabled kids will keep happening until we address our fear of disability and dislike of children.
Most the submissions should be available through this link now. http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/sc/business-summary/00DBSCH_INQ_64710_1/inquiry-into-the-identification-and-support-for-studentsMany of them make similar points. I stayed for a couple of hours and heard several others - all well informed and addressing serious issues. A group of students from Kapiti College were very impressive talking about earlier experiences of bullying and humiliation due to dyslexia and related conditions.