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The federal government has only ‘noted’ a call to end special schools. What does this mean for students with disabilities?
We have just received the long-awaited response from the Australian government to the disability royal commission’s final report.
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Inclusivity is too general a term in schooling. Different areas of learning can more or less easily include people with disabilities according to how the learning takes place; and there are many different types of disablity. This means that a school must have many more teachers, including those with skills in many different teaching approaches so that approaches can be modified and taylored for the particular mix of students in that school at that particular time.
This means a completely new inclusive focus in every school in Australia and in every teacher education program, with an average low ratio of student numbers per teacher, perhaps about 10 instead of 25 or 30.
This would be ideal – but it remains an ideal at this time.