A 28-year plan to scrap special schools that split disability royal commissioners earlier this week is “wildly inadequate” and the current school system perpetuates a “cycle of segregation”, Greens disability spokesman Senator Jordon Steele-John has said.
The division among six commissioners over the future of special schools was one of the most controversial outcomes of findings into the landmark final report of the Disability Royal Commission which was handed down on Friday.
Three of the commissioners called for a phase out of special schools by 2051 and a ban on new enrolments from 2032. “That’s perfectly possible … if we work together to transform the classroom, to acknowledge that the education system in the mainstream often doesn’t meet the needs of disabled people. “A disabled child will start education in a segregated school and then move through to a segregated workplace where they are paid, sometimes $2 an hour and will be forced to be housed in an institutional group home setting where they are again segregated,” he said.
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