Comments from Birgitte Holst on OI/3/2003/JMA (25/05/2004)

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Dear Sir,


European Schools - SEN Programme

I refer to my previous two emails about this issue and would add as follows:

Please ask the Commission to provide you with the figures of the SEN budget of the European Schools for 2003, 2004, and 2005. Ask for a break-down for each individual European school.

In the Eu School in Luxembourg the administrators are trying to create a climate of budgetary restriction concerning SEN.

A couple of parents of a SEN pupil in secondary were told two weeks ago by the SEN coordinator for secondary that the SEN budget had been halved. I do not think that is true because as far as I know the SEN budget was the only Eu School budget that was allowed to rise a little by the Board of Governors.

But why is the school trying to create this atmosphere of anxiety and threat against the SEN pupils? Why is the school misinforming the parents?? Is this transparency? Is this conducive to a good partnership between parents and school???

New member states pupils

The SEN coordinator was also using the arrival of new pupils from the ten new member countries as the ground for cuts. However, a special budget has been set aside for these new pupils who will attend the school in a section which is not their mother tongue section (example a Lithuanian pupil in the English section) , the so-called SWALs pupils (children without a mother-tongue section).

Please investigate what is going on.

The school is trying to give the SEN parents as little info as possible.

Yours truly,

Birgitte Holst

Mother of SEN pupil in secondary, Danish section