You have been working at Acorn College for 18 months. There are students attending the college who have a range of additional needs, including learning disabilities. It is careers day, and the 6^th-grade students are making posters on different jobs they would like to have in the future. Whilst assisting with activities, you overhear the education support worker, Lilly, telling a student who is drawing people dressed in unusual clothes that they will never be able to work at a 'normal job'. The student insists they want to be a fashion designer, but Lilly keeps telling them that there is a place where students like them go to work when they are old enough. It is a factory environment where people who are slow learners do things with their hands, following simple instructions. It is not the first time you heard Lilly making negative remarks to or about students. 

Lilly is a senior education support worker, yet you feel that she is not supportive but quite negative towards the student's goals and aspirations. Also, Lilly is your best friend's sister-in-law, and you meet her often at your best friend's house. 

You ask Lilly about her approach to supporting the student, and she tells you that your role is to make students understand and accept their capabilities and abilities, not to sell them dreams that could never come true. You believe this conflicts with guidance provided to you by your supervisor and does not reflect the school's philosophy of supporting all students to learn and achieve.

 

1.  Identify and name the legislation that this issue may be a breach.

Based on your understanding of the situation, you will need to find and name the organisational policy and procedure that applies in this case in order to resolve the issue.

 

2. List in dot points when and what information you would need to report to your supervisor regarding this issue.