Last chance to retain special needs posts [enniscorthyguardian.ie]
- Published: 28 June 2011
CAMPAIGNING parents with autistic children attending St. Senan's primary school in Enniscorthy have been given a last ditch chance to make the case for keeping six threatened specials needs assistant posts. A special education assessor is visiting the campus at Father Murphy Park today (Tuesday, June 28) to look at the children.
And the parents have been allotted a series of ten minute meetings with the assessor, allowing each family to make its case for retaining the SNA. A total of fourteen out of the eighteen youngsters attending the unit face cuts unless they can somehow persuade the authorities to revise their plans.
'I am not optimistic though I welcome the chance to put our case,' said Margaret Wickham, mother of nine year old Dylan who is a pupil at the unit in St. Senan's, who suspects that the officials have already made up their minds. ' They are still coming in with the view that 227 jobs have to go nationwide.'
The day long review comes after parents, staff and supporters filled two buses as they travelled to Dublin last week to protest at the Dáil. They were joined outside Leinster House by representatives of the primary school in Taghmon and of a school in Lucan.
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