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Education for some but not for others: Learning support, disability, and free education-By Ramya Kumar C. W. W. Kannangara: “Talents and ability are not confined to any social class or group and any social system must provide for their emergence by the provision of equal educational opportunities.” (from Kannangara Report 1943) Source:Island Kuppi Talk stands for democratising education and educational spaces by addressing issues of access, (in)equality, exclusion and marginalization, within our education systems. This Kuppi Talk draws on conversations with principals/teachers, parents, and students, to look into the everyday forms of violence and exclusion experienced by children with special needs at our schools and universities. “I could not concentrate or sit in one place, but this was not recognised as a problem by my parents or teachers…it was when I went extreme that the problem was identified, that is when I became violent …. I was bored … .my ...