Parents of children living with disability are not satisfied with the support their children are receiving in schools.
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A Tasmanian Disability Education Reform Lobby annual survey found parent satisfaction hit a five-year low, since the first survey in 2012.
About 22 per cent of parents of students with disability in mainstream schools, of the 188 people surveyed, believed their child received adequate support.
The survey also found more than half of the parents of students with disability attending a mainstream school reported their child had been bullied in the past 12 months.
Lobby founder Kristen Desmond said it was time for the elephant in the room to be death with.
The equivalent of four out of five parents believed their child did not receive adequate support in mainstream classrooms, Ms Desmond said.
“Families continue to fight everyday for their child’s fundamental right to access a quality education or in some cases any education,” she said.
“The reality is that the IQ based disability funding system in Tasmanian schools is inequitable, inadequate and failing schools and students.”
Families discussed their education experiences in the survey with one family saying, “He misses out on so much and is just getting lost in the system”.
Another family anonymously commented, “Other children have physically assaulted and verbally tormented them”.
More than a quarter of the parents surveyed reported their child had been excluded from a school activity.
The organisation acknowledged that the Government committed funds to improve support for students living with disability, but Ms Desmond said structural reform was needed now.