The reception of disabled students is still “insufficient”, warns the Defender of Rights

“On this back-to-school morning, my son didn’t get up with his brother and sister to have breakfast! No, he doesn’t have school, because he doesn’t have AESH (Accompanying a child with a disability)! Here is one of the many referrals received by the Defender of Rights in 2021. It comes from the desperate mother of a little disabled boy: for lack of support, he was deprived of school for a good part of the year, even though it is a right for all.