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DET Funding and your responsibilities (Winning the War!)

This blog has been prompted by one of my readers who made the following comments on another blog I had written. Patricia writes (and I have edited this slightly to reduce space), My twins Julian and Joanne are in year 2 attending a public school. Rodney do you have any information on how the DET funding Support is utilized by a school? I keep getting told that its at the discretion of the school how to use it. I just happen to know (by accident) recently that Julian has approval for 28 hrs 50 mins of DET Funding Support. Hence I was surprised the school could not provide an aid for Julian to be able to attend the cross country carnival which he was very enthusiastic to attend and was instead told by the teacher to remain at school. Hi Patricia, Thank you for your questions.

You raised two important points:

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You Get One Chance

I am writing this blog while sitting in my lounge room watching over Daniel as he slowly recovers from a head cold. I don’t want to be too far away in case he needs me to wipe his nose or catch vomit, needs a drink or to go to the toilet, etc.

The rest of us recovered from our colds in a day or two, however Penny and I fear when Daniel falls ill as it generally impacts on him 2.5 times worse than us.

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Attitude Matters

There are a lot of people in this world who care.

There are people who care about disabled kids, there are people who seek to improve society by looking to cure illness, there are people who care about saving the environment and caring for the welfare of animals and yet, even when you add them all up, they are the minority … by a long way.

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