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      <title>Elizabeth MacPhee [Signature #287]</title>
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      <title>Ms. Dale J. Cropper [Signature #286]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Dale J. Cropper, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:24:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Ken Beazley [Signature #285]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Ken Beazley, Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Laurie Chiasson [Signature #284]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Laurie Chiasson, Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
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      <title>Sue Regan [Signature #283]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sue Regan, Dartmouth, NS, Canada<p>Third Year Limit!?  SELF ESTEEM/WORTH<br />
Tell me why children with various handicaps that are visible (physical and or mental) have no limits on how many years they get a specialized education but, these children with disabilities that are not visible (nonverbal, etc) get a three year limit?</p>

<p>Supposedly resources exist in regular programs-tells me in front of my child that he is faking/grade seven homeroom in April-&quot;Is he LD?&quot;/Gr.7 science&amp;math teacher says-you will never even go to tech school</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr. Jason Gunter [Signature #282]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Jason Gunter, Beaverbank, NS, Canada<p>This program is vital for our childrens future success in society as whole.  This program allows family&#039;s with lower incomes the ability to give their children the same opportunities other children have.  All children no matter their social status, race or disability should be given the same opportunities to a progressive education.  This will benifit society as a whole giving equal opportunity to all children.  The reality is that these children are our future.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Yvonne Dufour [Signature #281]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:12:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Emily Swinemar [Signature #280]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:11:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Jeffrey Dufour [Signature #279]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:08:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Kathleen Dufour [Signature #278]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:07:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Lynda Dufour [Signature #277]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:05:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Antony Lodge [Signature #276]</title>
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      <title>Mrs. Sue Noade-Van Den Bussche [Signature #275]</title>
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      <title>LEVENTUS DOMINIX [Signature #269]</title>
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      <title>PAULA KENDALL [Signature #268]</title>
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      <title>Mr David Waye [Signature #267]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Waye, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:05:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Pam Hooper [Signature #266]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Pam Hooper, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:34:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Michael Nugent [Signature #265]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Michael Nugent, Mount Uniacke, NS, Canada<p>Why would the Government not provide the funds allocated to my children for public school, diagnosed with &#039;Lifelong Special Needs&#039; to a school like Bridgeway Academy that can provide the individual special learning tools so the children can succeed in life? Without this intervention, my children could end up a juvenile delinquent, welfare dependant, drug addicted, a prisoner in the justice system, homeless or worse yet dead!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Karen Nugent [Signature #264]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Karen Nugent, Mount Uniacke, NS, Canada<p>I only wish those in power could understand the financial hardship on parents with special needs children. I ask why the funds allocated for public school for children cannot be transferred to Bridgeway Academy? A school that can understand their learning disability &amp; teach them strategies to deal with them for the rest of their life. If a child is diagnosed with a lifelong learning disability, why should they be a burden on the public school system&amp; why should parents endure financial hardship?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs. Mary Young [Signature #263]</title>
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      <title>wenda McDonell [Signature #261]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[wenda McDonell, Enfield, N.S, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:49:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Gloria kendall [Signature #260]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:19:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Patty Smith [Signature #259]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Patty Smith, Chatham, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:55:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew Kendall, Enfield, N.S, Canada<p>we fully support the tuition program. and if the goverment fails then they have failed our childern.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Tracy Gifford [Signature #256]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Tracy Gifford, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:05:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Lori Grund [Signature #255]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Lori Grund, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:09:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Kathy Pope, Halifax, Co, N.S., Canada<p>The Children are the future and should be given a chance to succeed like there peers, and be given the chance to grow and feel confortable about themselves.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Besse&#039;s, Aurora, Ontario, Canada, Canada]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ryan Logan, Halifax, NS, Canada]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Carol Boylan-Hartling, Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Stephanie Morse, Berwick, NS, Canada<p>We are all so willing to help children in other parts of the world, yet able to ignore the needs of our own. These young people need attention NOW, so they can become productive, educated adults of our future!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs. Nancy Chittick [Signature #248]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Nancy Chittick, Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>The children that need special attention are not getting it in the public school system. They NEED a school that can assist them in their education. Without the tutition support, how can this be possible? Spend the money on private schools or spend the money on hiring new teachers in the public system? Either way the money will be going out, however, what quality and level of education will the child with the special need obtain in public school? There&#039;s a reason my son is in private-answered!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs. holly macgregor, new glasgow, n.s., Canada<p>these kids need all the resources we can give them</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Courtenay Parlee, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:19:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Janet MacGregor [Signature #245]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Janet MacGregor, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:46:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Jill Cameron [Signature #244]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jill Cameron, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:36:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms. Andrea MacGregor [Signature #243]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Andrea MacGregor, Halifax, NS, Canada<p>As a teacher and youth worker, I can tell you first hand of the need for more and more and MORE options for youth. Inclusion is a lovely idea, until you try to make it work for everyone.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Michelle Doucet, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:49:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Deirdre Mombourquette [Signature #241]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Karen Nugent, Mount Uniacke, NS, Canada<p>I support Resolution C-1</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Darlene Allen [Signature #238]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Darlene Allen, Grafton, Nova Scotia, Canada]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:03:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Martha Curry [Signature #237]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Martha Curry, Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>I consider the Tuition Support program to be a step toward inclusion for my learning disabled son. He can not manage in the large classrooms of the public school system but is progressing at Churchill Academy where he benefits from the very small teacher to student ratio. This funding is a step toward equal accessibility which I feel is essential to this issue.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Dr. Derek Berg [Signature #236]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Derek Berg, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>The tuition support program is a fundamental component of intervention for students with learning disabilities. The program provides access to scientifically-based intervention programs (e.g., SpellRead) that are not available in the public school system. Further, the program provides access to learning environments that present research-supported instructional and curricular approaches (e.g., sustained small group instruction) for students with learning disabilities.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Karen Chasse [Signature #235]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Karen Chasse, Fall River, NS, Canada<p>Without this program, many children will be left behind.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Judy Carter, Beaumont, Alberta, Canada<p>This is very important not only for the child but also their families.</p>]]></description>
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promises.<br />
I hope this isn&#039;t just anther empty<br />
&quot;get us elected&quot; promise.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Please save this program.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Sandra McFadyen, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>The tuition support program should not be limited to children with three specific diagnoses (ADD, ASD, LD) but should be open to any children with documented special needs whose learning needs are not being met by the public system.  To limit access to the program to children with one of three diagnoses is tantamount to discrimination based on disability.</p>]]></description>
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please support our future</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jeffrey Boyd, Fall River, NS, Canada<p>Dear Minister of Education,<br />
1st comment. You obviouly do not have  or had a special needs child.<br />
more money and larger classes in the public schools will not benefit special needs children , only hurt them more .</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Mary Poulin, Cole Harbour, NS, Canada<p>Our kids are sufferinf due to the cut backs in education.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Peggy Chisholm, Wellington, Nova Scotia, Canada<p>Thankyou Brian for creating this petition.There is strength in numbers!! Maybe if all provincial government buildings were to ask the employees to bring in a box of kleenex, their own pens and paper and charge a fee for the coat hangers, there&#039;d be enough money for the struggling kids to get the education they deserve!!Good idea don&#039;t you think?</p>]]></description>
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