Dáil protest planned over special needs cuts [IrishTimes]
- Published: 07 September 2011
PARENTS, TEACHERS and advocacy groups will protest outside Leinster House when the Dáil returns next week over plans to reduce the number of special needs assistants in schools.
A group calling itself the Alliance Against Cuts in Education said children with special needs, as well as those without, would suffer from such cuts.
Chairman of the group Tomás Ó Dúlaing, who is principal of Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School in Lucan, Co Dublin, said they were “the cruellest and most inhuman cutbacks” he had witnessed in his 31 years of teaching. Mr Ó Dúlaing said children with special needs returning to primary and secondary schools last week had been greeted with “a devastating array of cutbacks that, collectively, constitute a hammer-blow to their potential development”.
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