Thursday, May 3, 2007

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Ségolène Royal: "Playing with a handicap as you just did is outrageous." Welcome

pioneer with Handiscol

The debate between Segolene Royal and the right-wing candidate has shed light on the education of disabled children.

The right-wing candidate has proposed the right of parents of disabled children to go to court to demand the home of their child in public school. An absurd proposition, mothers and fathers of these children have many other problems to fight for a crèche place before a court. And the courts were already busy.

Segolene Royal said that it had created the map Handiscol, promoting the education of disabled children, which was accompanied by the creation of "7000 posts auxiliary education. Positions that were abolished by the government of right-wing candidate. "Less of a child [with disabilities] is no longer hosted on two schools" from five years earlier.



reactions contested by the UMP associations

"Since this morning, I hear figures that make me jump. It's appalling! "Declares Stephen LCI.fr Creton, vice president of my school is mine too, parents' association that campaigns for the education of children with disabilities or" holders of debilitating diseases. "There more children with disabilities enrolled in school, but we must see under what conditions, "art does. auxiliaries from associations who took care of these children have been replaced by" auxiliary state, less numerous and not trained ", provides the emergency doctor, who has two disabled children. 'There shall not any more of 500 for 20,000 Children", says Will il.Dans certain cases, assistance is provided by "long-term unemployed, with no competence in this area, paid a pittance, to whom we offer a one-year contract, renewable once," says Stephen Creton. Moreover, "disabled children spend between one and three hours per week at school, six if they are lucky," he laments. "That's what I call an alibi schooling," he says. Result: the children are unable to stay at, "so they release." As to go to court to enforce its rights, as desired by the candidate of the right is a "finding of failure ". "The early years school are paramount, "said Stephen Creton. Time to go to court, it will be too late, the life of the kid will already be ruined. "

Furthermore, the Federation of Associations for adults and youth with disabilities (APAJH) said Thursday that the education of disabled children," which the foundations were laid by the plan "Handiscol" of 1999, is a right since 2005 whose implementation is still "failed".

"Between 10,000 and 15,000 children are without solution of enrollment in regular school or special school," said in a statement the federation, who welcomes this topic "Enters the debate" of the presidential by Segolene Royal. She recalls that the "first steps" of the education of handicapped "were posed by the plan Handiscol in 1999, launched by Ms Royal, then Minister for School Education.

But the federation says that the application of this law "despite clear progress" is "still failing" since 2002.

The "accompanying children is inadequate", as there "a companion to 17 students" and "the number of carers at School (AVS) and employment of school life (EVS) is manifestly inadequate" she said.

The federation condemned the "poor" information for families affected by the Department of Education, the lack of training of teachers and staff, and difficulties encountered by teachers referents, "lost in the 'maquis' s administration.

(1) Segolene Royal was then Minister for Family, Children and people