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Currently, if a child is excluded or expelled from one school, the Ministry can direct another to take them on.
But principals said that was a problem if there was no good support in place - and they commissioned a legal opinion to back them up.
The Principals Federation released that legal opinion today.
The review, by Quigg Partners, said: A school should never be put in a position by virtue of a direction which results in the school being prevented from carrying out its primary obligations. When a school finds itself in such a position, we consider that the school would have strong grounds to have the direction judicially reviewed.
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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