Dear Members, Would appreciate your inputs and guidance in the below matter.
With the new circulars and guidelines which provide for one teacher in every school for people with special needs, are we moving towards a real solution or are we inviting new problems without an effective mechanism to deal with the problems posed by this requirement? I have a student who has financial constraints from Kota Rajasthan. >From what I have been given to understand, the student is bright, scoring 91% in 7th grade and the result of 8th is awaited. Due to the information about the special needs student and availability of facilities to be filled in the survey which is submitted to Government, the school management has been literally forcing the student to drop from their school. They are in fact convincing me that the student should give exam from open schools or private arrangement. According to them, that will not impact in job preference in any way! To add to it, majority of the other schools we have tried, are clearly denying from admitting the student on account of lack of facilities. Pathetically this includes a school where I have also been a student. And the real strength of the schools is the officials of the state education department, who are suggesting the management to tell those students to go out and take admission in special schools. To the best of my knowledge, there is no special school in this city which would provide education beyond 8th class. Given the situation, the attitudes of the state department officials, and the lack of motivation of the student's family for taking any action (which is completely understandable), what options we are left with? If I was to take any action independently, without getting the student involved, how should I be going about it? As a practical and quick solution for now, I am trying to reach out to schools and get the student admitted, and I am willing to bare the expenses. Any guidance will be appreciated. Regards, -- Amar Jain. Website: www.amarjain.com Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
