NDIS frustration for mum

[davidc4430]

NDIS frustration for mum who asks Minister to attend meeting after child denied wheelchair

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-16/mum-asks-ndis-minister-to-meeting-after-child-denied-wheelcha...

whats the bet suddenly this lady gets all the stuff she needs now its a media story?

[freddie*rooster]

David, this story upsets me no end. I have spent 2 days ringing around all the

disability advocacy places, disabilty support places, vinnies, trying to give a

needy person a perfectly seldom used fold up wheel chair and walker. They

would take them to sell, but I didn't want them sold. They even suggested I

put them on Gumtree for free - I told them no I wouldn't do that because the

chances of someone taking them and then selling them was a very high probability.

I finally called a place and the lady who I spoke to actually worked at the Nursing Home

where my Mum was. She knew of a Lady who picked up Pal care patients for shopping

or treatment and often hired a wheel chair to do this. So, i'm happy to say finally someone

offering her time to help others has now got a wheel chair and walker to use.

[davidc4430]

i too have out in my shed dads wheelchair, shower chair ect.

no one will take used things.

[lyndal1838]

After reading the article I feel that the lack of a wheelchair is the least of that mother's worries.

That child seems to be quite uncontrollable at times and I would hate to think she was in the school system with my children.

Who is going to pay for the injuries to the people she hurts.....I am sure 6 teachers and a carer are not going to be willing to be used as punching bags forever.....I smell a few law suits coming up.

[martinw-48]

When I was in primary school the teachers bashed me senseless with the blackboard ruler for years.
Only I pay for that and no one cares.
I have no sympathy for teachers but that makes me a horrible person

[lyndal1838]

Not all teachers were like that.

My grandmother was an infants schoolteacher for over 50 years and she was adored by her students.

[imastawka]

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@martinw-48 wrote:
When I was in primary school the teachers bashed me senseless with the blackboard ruler for years.
Only I pay for that and no one cares.
I have no sympathy for teachers but that makes me a horrible person

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Bet it was a Catholic school.

I had the same, and also an intense dislike for teachers.

[martinw-48]

No.
It was a public school.
Modbury primary school in Adelaide.
Most of the beatings were for not doing homework.
My father wouldn't let me do homework.
School work was for school hours.
I had chores to do when home.
The teachers always called me a liar.
The rest of the beatings were for challenging the current curriculum.
Books that were years old.
I had a brand new set of Encyclopedia Brittanica that I read from a to z as a novel and would correct the teacher.
Never went down well.
Then there was the odd non conventional statement

[martinw-48]

I'm sorry to hear that stawka.
It's a pity that the nuns were so nasty

[martinw-48]

lyndal, I'm glad that your mother was a decent human being and that her students had a normal student teacher relationship