A legal challenge by the parents of a child with a severe disability, seeking to send their son, Kazuki Kousuke, aged 8, to an elementary school in Kawasaki City was rejected by the Yokohama District Court on March 18.
Following the closure of all special needs schools in Hokkaido due to the spread of the new coronavirus, parents and other groups have requested the Education Committee to create a place for children with disabilities.
Six organizations, including parents with children with disabilities, such as intellectual disability and autism, made requests to the school’s Board of Education, Yoshihiro Sato, and submitted a request.
“Two and a half years have passed since the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education accepted students with intellectual disabilities in ‘mainstream’ schools in three prefectural high schools. These students will graduate in March next year.”
“The 40-year-old male teacher assaulted a male student with a disability saying, “Don’t you think that you are disabled?””
“The Osaka Prefectural Education Agency announced on the 23rd that a 40-year-old male teacher at the special support school violated a boy in a junior high school,”
“Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has put together a priority policy “Disability Promotion Plan” to be tackled from this fiscal year to support the activities of disabled people in each field such as school education, lifelong learning, cultural arts.”
“The Shizuoka prefectural board of education re-examined all faculty and staff on the 2nd October on the issue of inflating the employment of persons with disabilities. As a result, the prefectural board of education employment rate of persons with disabilities was initially reported to be 1.63%, the statutory employment rate (is 2 · 4%), which is the highest in the world. The actual figure was reported to be 2. 47%. day, Kazuaki Naomi, the director of prefectural assembly council of political affairs for Shizuoka explained.”
“Keiko Hirota, education chief, said, “It was not intentional padding, there were not enough confirmation of notebooks, administrative mistakes had overlapped.” ”
“Takarazuka City Board of Education said on Monday that a male (72), who was a board of education, attending public elementary schools in the city, said something to a mother of a fourth-graded girl (9) suffering from incurable diseases ” that the city’s board of education recognized the remark as “discrimination”. The man submitted his resignation last month and it was accepted on the 26th.”
“At least 11 Japanese local governments have been found to have padded data on the proportion of people with disabilities on their payrolls.”
Barrier Free Japan