Private school children account for about 35% of all school children, they use nearly two thirds of the available funding, that is unconscionable

As a worker in the industry, I totally agree.

Remove the rich from the equation and it may actually work!

Someone I know recently applied to be on the NDIS. He was rejected on unjust terms. For context, this gentleman was born with this disability. When he was born, his parents were told to institutionalise him. His parents decided not to. He went on and graduated with a BOC from Melbourne University. He has led a successful life for himself. This gentleman I know helped sign off at a state level on the NDIS 10 years ago. He didn’t apply then because he didn’t need it, which would have saved the Government 100s of thousands of dollars over that time. He’s now 58. His disability has gotten worse in recent years and he fears he may not be able to work soon, hence why he applied. He was told by some person with no medical background that could hardly speak English that “he wasn’t disabled enough to access the NDIS”. He was also told he “hadn’t done enough during his life to correct his disability”. This is despite the fact that his disability only allows him to walk 400m at best, he has never been able to run or kick a football, nor does it allow him to correctly bend his legs. It also brings him great pain, which is getting worse and worse as he ages. The “hasn’t done enough to correct disability” part is a load of BS as well. This man had dozens and dozens of surgeries as a child just so he could walk. He missed two full years of his education due to his disability. The official letter he received proclaiming his rejection also failed to correctly identify his disability. From what this gentleman tells me, incidents such as this have become much more frequent since Mr Albanese took Government. This simply should not be happening in our great country, yet it is. But Mr Albanese doesn’t care. He’s too worried spending 100s of millions on his “Voice” Referendum that will go down as one of the biggest political fails in Australian history. Mr Albanese’s Government must be the most inept Federal Government I have experienced since the days of Gough Whitlam. Mr. Bob Hawke would be rolling in his grave if he knew that a Labor Government would be so unjustly denying people the right to services they need.

Why do governments need to be told this? As a parent of a severely autistic 4 year old, these announcements make me extremely nervous. Although I think what they’re saying is mildly autistic people shouldn’t be receiving such high levels of funding, I see so many children that appear absolutely neirypicsl? They can talk perfectly , walk, engage in eye contact and yet they take up precious spots on the never ending waiting lists.

I work in early childhood and there are kids popping up everywhere that don’t need to be on the NDIS and their rich parents certainly don’t need the extra support. It’s a common thing in early childhood services to make sure to make the application “sound worse than what they are so they can get funding”. And yep to the training. Stop sending support workers who were bartenders last week and discovered that disability work makes them easy money.

It's great to see a lot of children being diagnosed autistic, rather than not knowing their whole lives, like almost all autistic people older than 23. Is it time that the neurotypicals have a good long hard look at themselves, and consider what changes they should make in their behavior, communications, and planning, to reduce the burden on autistic people to fit in with them (masking). This will improve lives and save some of this money that's being complained about. Of course it will never happen because they are too arrogant.

I've formally enrolled in the group!

Schools no longer keep kids that are struggling back so they can repeat the year to get them to the right level. Then kids just continue to struggle all the way through school. If NAPLAN is not being used to help the students that are struggling what is the point. Some of the sso's should be covered also from health budgets instead of education as it is a two pronged responsibility

Lmao the bot comments above