Teen’s E-Petition To Get Disability Awareness Taught On National Curriculum
December 29, 2011
I’ve just read about Paige Murray, 18. Paige has Cerebral Palsy and has recently started an e-petition to the Government to have disability awareness taught in schools as part of the National Curriculum. She hopes that this will reduce bullying of disabled children.
As a person who was once a disabled child in a mainstream school, I see her point. I always wished that disability awareness lessons for my class were more formal than a screening of My Left Foot and one talk a year given by little old me.
So I have just signed the petition. Can I ask you to take a minute to do the same if you agree, please.
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What a great idea! Actually now I think about it I’m surprised it isn’t already taught.
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This is a great idea, although children need to be taught that disability is both visible and invisible something even the teachers and much of todays society need a lesson in.
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