This is a story about Jeff Moore and his father, Rick. Jeff Moore has dyslexic which is a learning disability that impairs a person’s fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to
read. Rick Moore and his lawyer argue that the North Vancouver school district discriminated
against his dyslexic son because the North Vancouver school district recently had closed a special program that offered intensive remediation to students with learning disabilities. Therefore, he had to pay to go private school that gives specialized programs to Jeff. Although, he won a victory from the B.C Human Rights Tribunal in 2005, which concluded his son had been discriminated
against on the basis of his disability, the province appealed that neither the local school nor the provincial Ministry of Education could be faulted for the way they tried to help Moore when he was a student in the early 1990s.
In my opinion, the provincial government is trying to cover up their faults by giving poor excuses. Although, there were any specialized programs to provide for students with disabilities, it is the government’s fault for not making one previously. Therefore, I believe that the government must apologize to Rick for their inability because everyone has the right to education which grants equal education as others.
I agree with your opinion that the government should be responsible for this whole problem. They are the ones who should make sure that proper education is provided to everyone, whether they are special needs or just a regular person, so i think not only is it the governments fault but they should also give the family some money as an apology.
ReplyDeleteGood start - late post. More elaboration on the varied positions and rationales would strengthen your post significanlty. This is very brief and does not fully meet the expectations laid out in the criteria / expectations. For example you sort of addressed the issues won in the HR tribunal by the family and the govt's position but furhter explanation would be useful to provide context. For example did the privat institution have a special ed class or just further support due to smaller classes - many privat institutions do not have any special needs support. How did the public system fail the family and what was the remedy? The judgement was in favour of the family but did they offer a remedy (civil term equivalent to sentence) that the gov't would need to fulfill? William's suggestion of compensation is a good one. Compensation for money lost (paid to the institution) and / or additional monies for other hardships? Good questions to consider as we start civil law.
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