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DISABILITY INCLUSION PRACTICES: A NSW HIGH SCHOOL Debra Ruh During the late 1980s early '90s this school adopted a policy for light sensitive learners. "Paradoxically, adjustments improved students’ marks and thereby enhanced the reputations of their teachers. When Higher School Certificate results were discussed in staff meetings, no one thought about adjustments. The numbers of students in your class who passed, failed, or excelled was much more significant. Those numbers might determine whether you were given an HSC class the following year. If students in your class had been given assistance, then their results changed from fail to pass or above. Curiously, staff did not see that connection." [Excerpt from my book.] The story of policymaking in that NSW school is told in my book " Light Sensitive Learners: Unveiling Policy Inaction, Marginalisation, Discrimination". [Google the title to find a bookseller in your country or try Amazon.]

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