Parent power protest over Autistic cuts [theecho.ie]
- Published: 07 October 2010
A PUBLIC protest by parents on Tuesday over proposed cuts affecting the special Autistic unit of St. Senan’s primary school could be the launch of a campaign against such a move, ‘The Echo’ has learned.
The anger and sense of betrayal of parents of pupils attending the designated autistic unit at St. Senan’s PS spilled out into the area at the school gates entrance on Tuesday morning and again that afternoon.
Under the plan, the 18pupil special unit could lose as many as five of its Special Needs Assistants (SNA) and also two more SNAs in the mainstream classes of the school a fall-off of 30% on average in what the school and the parents involved view as merely a slashing cost cutting exercise by the Dept. of Education.
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