Worldwide, 93 million children have some type of disability and 90% do not attend school and those who do, are less likely to finish their studies than the rest of their peers. Too many times, the child population with special educational needs is the great forgotten when claiming the right to education. This inequality is accentuated in the most impoverished countries.
Today is a good day to claim this inequality, since we celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In fact, the Global Campaign for Education (CME) has launched its campaign 'Let's add capabilities. For the right to an inclusive education '.
The intention is to vindicate the right of children with special educational needs to receive a quality education, without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunities, that meets their basic learning needs and enriches their lives, as set out in article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
As every year, the Global Campaign for Education offers dissemination materials to work on the right to inclusive education in schools throughout Spain that are adapted to each level of education (children, primary, secondary, high school, adults and non-education). formal). In addition, a mobilization activity proposal is launched every year, which this year consists of the Goose Game 'Advances for Education for All and All'.
It takes just over a year to reach the date set by the international community at the Dakar summit, in which we wanted to achieve the educational goals for everyone. It will be in 2015, and the CME wants to take advantage of this course to sensitize society and claim before the public authorities the need to guarantee the right to an inclusive education for all people with some type of disability.
We join the conviction of the CME, according to which, in a plural society, each one has its own characteristics, different and unrepeatable, so we defend an inclusive education that promotes access to quality education and that of the opportunity for every child in the world to reach an acceptable level of knowledge based on their own characteristics, interests and abilities.
That is why we believe that educational systems should be designed so that they take into account all this range of different characteristics and learning needs. Because we believe that an inclusive education benefits all people, enriches the educational environment, teaches all students to appreciate diversity, combats discrimination and promotes fairer societies.
