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Collective complaint about appropriate education

The Education Inspectorate can expect a bright yellow American school bus on Monday with Angry Parents in it. Under this heading, parents of children who 'do not receive adequate education' submit a collective complaint to the government agency.

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The parent collective has gathered in recent weeks Angry parents via a investigation nearly six hundred experiences, says Sander van Knippenberg, one of the initiators and board member for parent association Balans. “These are children who do not receive suitable education. Not all are home sitters. Some of them go to school or part of it. They are all harrowing stories in which the child does not receive the education it needs and the parents have their backs to the wall. ”

Duty of care

Angry parents wants the Education Inspectorate to register complaints centrally and enforce them if a school does not fulfill its duty of care. Van Knippenberg: “Far too much goes wrong. Schools that do not write development perspectives. Children who are deregistered without mercy. Parents who receive a report at Safe at Home (previously Advice and Reporting Center for Child Abuse, ed.) If they do not agree with the plan of the school or the partnership. ”

The group explicitly does not target teachers. “If they don't get the support to help our children, it can't be done. Of course we see that too. Our frustration is with boards making decisions about our children based solely on their own research or assumptions. The knowledge we submit as parents is ignored. Our attempts to get money from the partnerships into the schools also fail. ”

Damage

In June 2019, the AOb with the results of a survey among education staff on appropriate education. This showed that too many students do not benefit from the current system. For example, almost 70 percent of teachers have pupils in their class who are better off in special education, but cannot go there. The editors of the Education magazine calculated that in 2018 - the last year for which the figures are available - the reserves of the partnerships appropriate education increased.

Just before the turn of the year, Education Minister Arie Slob was confronted with one growing number of home sitters. Angry parents want not only the number of home sitters to be recorded, but also the numbers of children in the Netherlands who do not receive appropriate education. Van Knippenberg: "This is the only way to gain insight into the failure of this system. If a child ends up at home, a whole process has already preceded it."

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