Irish Autism School Needs a Home
An autism school in Ireland, the proposed Waterford Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) School, will be unable to open its doors in September because of (1) not having a building for the school and (2) “continuing bureaucratic problems with the Department of Education,” as noted in today’s Waterford News & Star. The Department of Education will not release funds to pay the school’s director and supervisor until a school building is found.
Lucy Phelan, who[se] sons John and Mathew are also educated at home, holds onto the hope that the school could be ready to open by Christmas if all goes well with the Department of Education inspection of the latest premises they have view. But she echoed Mr van Dokkum’s frustration.
“We are weather worn and beaten at this stage. But this school is going to have to open.
I don’t have any alternative for my children and the other parents don’t either.”
I know just what Ms. Phelan is feeling—-why does it have to be so hard to educate our children?
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