Protest over special needs cuts [IrishTimes]
- Published: 06 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 today that children with special needs, as well as those without, would suffer as a result of such cuts.
Chairman of the group Tomás Ó Dúlaing, who is principal of Griffeen Valley ET National School in Lucan, 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 on the first day with “a devastating array of cutbacks that, collectively, constitute a hammer-blow to their potential development”.
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