Special needs assistants fall victim to spending cuts obsession [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 29 March 2010
IN his letter (March 15), Kieran Kennedy highlighted then Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s lip service to schoolchildren with special needs, while in practice the minister sought to restrict the role of the Special Needs Assistant (SNA) to one of "care" at the expense of educational support.
Mr Kennedy needs correcting in one respect, however. The teaching unions did not connive at O’Keeffe’s cynicism to preserve teachers’ monopoly of educational input in the classroom.
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