This post is a day late, this was meant for the blog action day re: Education Is A Right spearheaded by the Kabataan Partylist.
I agree that everyone has the right to a quality and accessible education, it is a right given to as by the constitution, the basic of all human rights everyone is bestowed upon. But sadly, with the present state education is now a privilege enjoyed by those who can afford.
For the coming school year, two of my closest mom and kid tandem at the special private school my daughter attends to will stop schooling because they could no longer afford the tuition fee. Right now they are hunting for schools that can at least accommodate their special child. I feel bad for the kids because they have improved so well after a couple of years of studying there, you can barely tell they have autism.
A new environment, especially at a non-focus special education at a public school could bring negative effects to the child as it could mean their regression because of the new environment or regression because of the non-focused type of teaching where they are blended with the other types of special children that needs a different teaching approach.
I don’t know what happened to this Free Special Education Act (HB6771) that was proposed by the Kabataan Partylist. It is a good bill and whoever wrote it understand what special children are and what kind of education and help they need from the government.
I hope the upcoming president of the Philippines, the one people will vote for and win the 2010 elections, will have a heart for the special people and will make HB6771 a priority.
