Read what President of the Dulwich High School P & C Susie Newman has said in a letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald this week. She points out the contradictory responses coming from the Department of Education, i.e. they are saying there are no cuts at the same time as showing what schools are losing funding on their own websites.
Funding cuts cruel – ltr to SMH by Susie Newman
This letter was in response to the Herald’s reporting of the press conference/rally held by parents and community protesting at the cuts to support for students with special needs at 272 schools across the state (link in our previous post). Join Susie and others who have responded to the media to let their views be known on this policy that discriminates against our most vulnerable young people.
Check out the links to various articles in the previous post and send your response to the media now!
Here’s the information on how to write a letter to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
Letters to the editor (scroll down page until you see this heading)
and a very useful tip page to make it more likely your letter gets published:
Rules and Tips for Submitting Letters
Forty Families Dulwich Hill 
Well here we thought we getting improved person Centred care for children with disablities with NDIS and yet the same old battles go on. I fought the battle to have funded OOSH care for my daughter at Kids Uni and Figtree Heights in Wollongong all through the nineties, it was exhausting, frustrating and took me away from time that would have been better spent with my daughter. When will children with disabilities and their families be recognised in this state as equal citizens and not a financial burden, why mus the merri go round go on!!!!
As a state we spend money on the more capable to access sporting, dancing, theatrical, scientific and academic pusuits, yet we won’t support a child with disabilbities to equal access to a basic education and after school care, must we always feel we are asking for favours just to lead “an ordinarey life” spend a day with a child with disablites, know that there parents love them but are tireder, more fincially challenged and live narrow lives to manage their lives. Just stop mucking us around finsh the fight and treat all children in NSW with the respect and opportunites they desreve.
Over the battle!!!