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Teachers angry at DET changes to support
24 June 2009
Illawarra Teachers demonstrate at planned changes to Support Teacher Learning Assistance
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Illawarra teaches protest outside Wollongong State Office
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Teachers showed their anger at the DET's proposals to radically change the way support for students is delivered in schools.
Over 100 teachers from across the Illawarra rallied together outside the State Office Block in Wollongong on Tuesday afternoon, calling on their local Members of Parliament to lobby the Minister for Education to provide additional teachers and additional support for students in need in our public schools.
The rally was addressed by a local Behaviour Support Teacher and an Assistant Principal Learning Assistance who gave first hand accounts of the work and support they give teachers and students and the impact that this will have across the region if we reduce direct teaching support for students with special needs and learning difficulties and replace teachers with 'coordinators'.
Local Teachers Federation Organiser, Nicole Calnan told the assembled teachers, "that at a time when more and more students are identified in our schools with learning difficulties, with disabilities, with mental health disorders, with behavioural disorders now is a time when the Department should be proposing to increase the direct support available to support these students and the teachers who work with them."
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