Focusing on specialist schools for students with disability misunderstands the royal commission report’s point and misses its major implications for all schools.
- Senior Lecturer in Special and Inclusive Education, RMIT University
Kids with disabilities need support to gain and maintain friendships. But there are benefits for everyone when social inclusion works.
Making Victorian schools truly inclusive involves addressing the many barriers that prevent full inclusion of children with disability in mainstream schools.
Thousands of Australian students are disengaged from school and leave early. Governments have provided alternative learning options for these students, but are these having unintended consequences?
It’s important for the child and their achievement at school that there is a good parent-teacher-student partnership.
Research shows punishments like suspension and expulsion further disadvantage already vulnerable students and could result in long term criminal and anti-social behaviour.
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