Three students with learning disabilities have their action permanent participant Players Leaving Cert exams next week to ensure start. No...
Three students with learning disabilities have their action permanent participant Players Leaving Cert exams next week to ensure start.
No details of the settlement were agreed outside the State Examination Commission exposed to pay the legal fees of the three candidates.
One of the three cases without opening before Judge Seamus Noonan Tuesday dissolved, while the other two opened briefly before the judge suggested that the parties participating in the talks.
The judge found, although the two students, the Commission has to reconsider the rejection of their applications, which could be a victory "Pyrrhic victory" may, when taken a second decision, the Commission had also rejected a reasonable request.
This second decision was taken after the Noonan judge judgment by another student delivered last April in another case, apart from the refusal by a player of the students for reasons including lack of motivation for the rejection.
After the discussion, the judge said Michael Lynn SC, for the two sides were disbanded, the problems and cases with the cost of the applicant to be affected.
Not meet the criteria
Bill Shipsey SC, for the Commission, agrees. Note students do not meet the criteria for support were for the exams you are looking for have certificates.
The judge has said earlier a student dyslexia and dyscalculia has (difficulty with arithmetic), while the second has a learning disability.
Mr. Lynn said the refusal of support for its customers in the so-called RACE System (reasonable adjustments certificate examinations) is known, for reasons including his side was unfair was should the unknown Commission a second decision on the application of the student by the to make findings of the Court. They had no opportunity to ask the question, he said.
Mr Shipsey said the judge read over 400 applications from your customer in April following sentence Judge Noonan were reviewed. This test was carried out at the foot of the principles established by the judgment principles and led to 81 students to ensure the support of the reader, the lawyer said.
given reasons
211 other candidates had been told not to meet the criteria and have the same reasons for their applications receive, Mr Shipsey said. Another 55 candidates, which are also delivered reasons in another category, why their applications were rejected, he added.
The concern of the Committee was to protect the integrity of the RACE system, he said. This allows students with learning disabilities a range of to provide "reasonable accommodation" in the tests, a reader, an adult supervisor who reads the structure of the examination papers to the students or dispensations and explained, for relevant spelling and grammar.
To qualify for a reader, a student must meet certain criteria, including receipt of certain results of tests of reading words on sample documents.
