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Article: Government To Prioritize Education for The Disabled

I read the article about government to prioritize education for the disabled students in The Jakarta Post newspaper. The government’s plan is to implement in crease for BOS (Bantuan Operasional Seklolah) fund next year to development and improving the skills of disable students to make them equal to those of other students. I think that’s really good for develop our education especially for disable students, because there are so many disabled students who cannot access education at public schools. There are still many problems in ensuring education for the disabled, such as poor educational infrastructure and teachers’ low salaries. As a result, many teachers prefer to teach at general schools rather than at schools for the disabled. That is really being apprehensive about our education for disable students.
The data from the Education Ministry showed that of nearly 680,000 school-aged disable children (5-18 years old), only some 66,500 received a full nine year education. Their disabilities ranged from blindness, deafness, mental disability, physical disability, multiple disabilities and autism. That can be happened because the parents of disable children didn’t have a lot of money to finance their children, there are so many disabled children who need to help, so we have to support the government’s program.

Source: The Jakarta Post
Tuesday, November 17, 2009