CHELSEA Anderson loves school - when she is learning.
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Yet many of the six-year-old's lessons at a Launceston school are disrupted because she has five children with autism in her class.
There is one teacher and on Tuesday, a full-time aide started in the class for the first time - before that different aides visited on an ad hoc basis.
Like Telejah Bowen who featured in The Examiner on Tuesday, Chelsea's parents have been fighting an uphill battle against the Education Department to ensure their child gets the education she deserves.
Mum Emma Anderson said she was not against children with disabilities in mainstream schools, yet to have so many in one class was not fair on those children, their classmates like her daughter Chelsea or the teacher.
The family is so upset with the situation they have started paying for extra tuition so Chelsea does not fall behind in school work and are looking to move her to a non-government school.
Mrs Anderson has raised her concerns with the class teacher, principal and Education Minister Nick McKim. She knows of others who have done the same.
Mrs Anderson said she understood that because of a lack of disability funding to schools, the school was not directly to blame.
She said her daughter regularly came home and told her about incidents where the autistic children had acted out with violence, ``trashed'' the classroom and regularly occupied the teacher's attention so lessons were disrupted.
Mrs Anderson said the teacher was doing all she could but it was at the point where Chelsea was sometimes scared to go to school.