| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Aaron Cruikshank | |
| 2 | Cathie Camley | This is long past due to the children in this province. |
| 3 | Ray Camley | |
| 4 | Doug Symington | |
| 5 | Howard Eaton | Significant educational law needs to be passed such as that available to families in the United States such as IDEA |
| 6 | Anonymous | |
| 7 | Dawn Steele | Thanks for this initiative. The erosion of front-line special education services since my child started kindergarten nine years ago is a travesty. There is absolutely no excuse for what has happened in a wealthy province with a thriving economy and billion dollar surpluses.
The Minister keeps claiming that BC is spending more than ever on special education. One has to wonder where that money is going and what kind of comment that is on her management abilities if we're getting less and less every year as a result. |
| 8 | Joanne Perkins | |
| 9 | Melissa Horler | |
| 10 | Darren Horler | |
| 11 | Elizabeth Anne Myers | I strongly support all the above and want our government to recognize and fund every child with a Learning Disability in the school system. There is no more "normal" learning style!!!!!!! |
| 12 | Salma Nawaz | |
| 13 | Sonya Leith | |
| 14 | Lenore S. Clemens | I am a single parent of a child with special needs.
He gets some supports in school because I have spent so much time since he was 6 months old looking for them and advocating for him. Therefore, by the time he reached school age I had help jumping through the hoops on how to get him help.
Even that preparation and the knowledge and support of health professionals did not prepare us for the systemic lack of supports, and often lack of understanding, for children with special needs and their parents.
He does have an SSSW. But there is no other one-one-one physio, speech or occupational therapeutic supports for him, not enough people to give the psycho-educational report Sunny Hill said he should get - too many children need them.
Without money, I can't get him anything like that, but the provincial government insists he is supposed to get it through the underfunded school system.
No matter how extensive his disabilities are, we are not elibible for CCCS funding because his "IQ" is over 70 and he is supposedly not on the autism specturm.
So I can't get funding for him from the majority of "non-profits" because they demand a CCCS referral!
Imagine what parents could do, for our children, our communities and ourselves if we had all that time and energy freed up and knew our children were getting the support and understanding they deserve while at school!
Imagine the health benefits for everyone! |
| 15 | Bernice Beckstead | |
| 16 | Mitch Loreth | |
| 17 | Patti Bacchus | |
| 18 | Lucie Marquis | |
| 19 | Peter Siu | I wished the judge in this case and the Minister responsible for education would make a sincere attempt to understand the plight of children with learning disadvantage by adopting my son or any children with learning disability for one school year. To be a good actor or actress, one has to immerse him/herself in the life of the character s/he is playing. Our judges and politicans must learn from the people to whom they serve. Unless they have the same learning ability like my son. |
| 20 | Anonymous | |
| 21 | Cynid Gerlach | Education is the right of all children, regardless of how they learn. |
| 22 | Pam Collins | |
| 23 | Wendy Counsell | There are children in our schools who unfortunately will never be real productive members of our society yet they sap the resources of school needing bell to bell coverage, toileting, feeding, rooms rearranged to fit their hospital issued beds and may even be a danger to other children, teachers and their care givers. I believe in education for all children but it's the non behavior issue children that get lost in the cracks. When a child goes through school with an undiagnosed learning disability, it ruins their self esteem therefore lading to higher drop out rates in high school and possibly menial jobs. If they had the help they needed to help them understand their disability, their self esteem would sky rocket and their opportunities for greater things would arise. Not helping these kids with learning disabilities is going to cost the Province even more money when they become adults. I see children in public schools who should not be in attendance but should be somewhere where their specific needs are being met. There are children in our schools who struggle to read. Do they not deserve the same type of resources? |
| 24 | Elizabeth Barr | |
| 25 | Cathy Anthony | All students have a right to quality education and to receive the supports and services to ensure their success. |
| 26 | Deborah Pugh | |
| 27 | Debbie Cybulski | |
| 28 | Rick Pennykid | Our two sons have learning disabilities. The help they need is not being provided in the public school system. Even though we have been after the school for proper testing for five years, one of our sons has not been tested. The SD42 psychologist says he is on the list and will be tested before he reaches grade eight. WE FEEL THAT IS WAY TO LATE. We have decided to pay $1500 for private testing and enrolling him in a private school for grades six and seven at a cost of $8000 per year. He needs this, to be prepared for high school.
The government should be investing in our youth now before its too late. Spending money now will be a good investment for the future. |
| 29 | Rachel le Nobel | |
| 30 | Jane Bouey | |
| 31 | Katrina Bosch | Please provide more adequate funding for children with disabilities such as Down syndrome! Our son is not getting the help he needs! |
| 32 | Jennifer Bennett | |
| 33 | Anonymous | |
| 34 | Allison Russell | |
| 35 | Carol MacNeil | |
| 36 | Suzanne Norman | |
| 37 | Sally Comin | |
| 38 | Judy Ennis | All students have the right to the supports that are necessary for them to achieve success in school. |
| 39 | Loretta Best | |
| 40 | Dennis McMillan | |
| 41 | Loretta Lucas | |
| 42 | valerie macaraeg | |
| 43 | Tina Lott | |
| 44 | Lynette | |
| 45 | Megan Lowenberger | |
| 46 | Jose Macaraeg | |
| 47 | MatthewMacaraeg | |
| 48 | Joel Macaraeg | |
| 49 | Cindy Cameron | |
| 50 | Jill Sully | It is high time that our most invisible and at risk students receive programs, materials and specialist support sot at they CAN be successful citizens. It is punitive to not allow paretns/families/individuals choices and access to specialist programs in the public system. The cost for many of the private programs is prohibitive and exludes families who cannot afford them and creates economic hardship for those who are able to scrape togther the funds to enroll their children in alternate programs tailored to individual educational needs. |