That is according to Carlow Educate Together principal Simon Lewis who toldtoday that 76% of schools do not have enough support hours to manage children with certain needs.
“These algorithms, we don’t know how they are being calculated and they’re being protected through Freedom of Information requests - so we’re not going to find out.Mr Lewis said the weekly support hours available to his school have been cut recently.“They say your school is only entitled to a certain number of hours and you need to spread them across children.
“Her school has been fantastic but she is in a Gaelscoil so she had to come out of that to help support her English.“We were told to apply for other schools that concentrate on kids with complex needs as they couldn’t support our daughter anymore.”