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Throughout history, people with intellectual disability have been treated in degrading, paternalistic, hostile, disrespectful and sometimes cruel ways.

They have been institutionalised, marginalised and systematically pathologised.

I feel that this has not changed and in a sense feel we are going backwards.
The NDIS will put more resources for support of people with disability but if we do not tackled ableism; and if we do not stop the soft discrimination of our children and young people with disability in the education system through low expectations and ignoring the aspiration, we have little chance of create a better society where people with disability are valued.

had done well in Kindergarten.

No one spoke about is 9 years old and happens to have Down syndrome.
The pressure I to a special school from so call professional was intensive, My Son received to send even though academic education, they spoke of school system, that how lucky I am that I can get a taxi to pick up my son and take would be one of 10 in a class.

I do not understand this him to school.

That from his local community and the kids in it.

perverse incentive to segregate No one seems to speak about best when the bar is raised.
getting more funding in the special academic development or that works According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the number of schools in Australia increased by 3% from 1999 to 2013.

During the same period there has been a 17% increase in special schools across the country.

This goes against international practice where there is a move away from special education provision in favour of mainstream schooling.

Why in this day and age are we further building segregated education system.
Particularly when from all the evidence that I have read long term outcomes for the individual with a disability and for their class mates without disability is better if they learn together.

We are not putting in the resources to support school to be inclusive rather than building new special schools.

A poor education is one of the key reasons identified by Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (2012) why economic and social participation rate of Australians with disabilities is so low.
We need to do better.

Why as a parent can I not use the resources that system to support his education in the mainstream education system?

‘’Australian Education Act 2013 Regulations which currently provide provision of an increased funding loading to ‘Special Schools’ or segregated education environments to a much Higher level compared to the loading for children with disability in mainstream education settings’’.
could have in the special school Currently we have Down syndrome Victoria KISS program support school to provide good inclusive education.

This support was paid for by the Dept of education in prep but now we have to fund ourselves.
This service has been a life saver, it ’s teachers and Current levels of access and attainment for students with disability in the school system, and the impact on studentsand families associated with inadequate levels of supportSubmission 204 ensure that high expectation were key and that advise and knowledge.

But why as a parent I need to pay to provide knowledge and expertise to be developed in the school system?

teachers felt support with world case I want the same things for all my kid’s futures.
I want them to have a good education where they can experience success and be challenged, their achievements acknowledged and celebrated and they develop independence and self-determination leading to meaningful and rewarding work.

I want them to have lives enriched with people that love them and someone special for them to share their life with.
has Down syndrome others will think he is not capable of Our fear is that because making a significant contribution to the community, that people will have low expectations of him and that he will be denied opportunities available to his siblings.

We fear that education system and society will see him as disabled and this will in turn effect how he sees himself, rather than as someone who just happens to have Down syndrome, but also has a cheeky smile, a curious mind and a loving nature.
In my job I work with schools and I am disappointed that more often than not children and young people with a disability are seen as a burden in the school system and there is little promotion or genuine understanding of the benefits of inclusion.

My real fear is if those who should know better are judgemental with low expectation, I worry how to ask the wider society to act any differently when our education system behaviours so badly.
Current levels of access and attainment for students with disability in the school system, and the impact on studentsand families associated with inadequate levels of supportSubmission 204