Resolved complaint (121) about disability discrimination in education

About the complaint

The complainant's son is five years of age and has Attention Deficit Disorder with aspects of Oppositional Defiance Disorder. She alleged her son's primary school and its principal did not accommodate her son's disability, singled him out in the classroom, excluded him from classroom activities, and suspended him because of behaviour associated with his disability.

The school denied discriminating against the complainant's son but indicated a willingness to try to resolve the matter through conciliation.

The complaint was resolved with an undertaking by the school's principal to write to the complainant acknowledging the family's experience, wishing her son all the best for the future, and affirming the school's commitment to learn from the issues raised by the complainant.

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