The Ministry of Education says a Hastings school was within its rights to close for 48 hours to hold a funeral service for a senior Mongrel Mob member.
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IHC New Zealand is taking a fight against our schooling system to court and is collecting evidence from around Aotearoa.
Kathryn Sadgrove says in the past 27 years, she has seen young disabled people be continually treated unfairly in schools. File image
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The advocacy group says young disabled people are being discriminated against and its legal team has started meeting with parents, educators and community groups around the country, ahead of a Human Rights Tribunal hearing.
The first hui was held in Whangārei yesterday.
Around 20 people told their stories to IHC lawyers and Kathryn Sadgrove was one of them.
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The boy s mother told RNZ the process of finding schools for children who had been excluded or expelled took too long.
Her 13-year-old son was stood down from school seven weeks ago following a fight and the school s board decided to exclude him five weeks ago, just before the start of the April school holidays.
The woman said she knew from past experience it could take months to find a replacement school and the wait was frustrating. I have a son that desperately wants to go to school. He wants to be engaging with others and he can t because there s nowhere for him to go, she said.