Assalamualaikum, hai we meet again. As I had said before, Miss Wani had arranged a forum to our class and refers to the article in the reading book which is the title ‘please let me go to your school’. Basically, for my entry this time, I want to apply the 10 rules or element that relate to the article. Let’s go through the 10 rules.
- Topic
The title of the article is ‘please let me go to your school’. From the title, my first assumption is I think a child is begging to a particular school to go to that school. From the picture that had paste at the article, I believe that she is a normal girl that has a normal life.
- Content
The article is about a six years old child which name Scarlet Finney had received against and discrimination about her hope to go to The Hills Grammar School. Scarlet Finney is a child that was born with a lesion in her spine that has caused paralysis of the feet and in continence. This means that her step of walk is really slow, but even though she is like that, but she is a moderate disability and according to her mother who is Bernadette Finney had said that her daughter is able to walk short distances and use ordinary toilets and is not intellectually disabled. (This can be prove by looking at the paragraph 5 and 6)
The participant is involved in this article is absolutely Scarlet Finney, Bernadette Finney as her mother, Scott Finney which is her father, Commissioner Graeme Innes which is really against the schools that do not want to take Scarlet Finney to the school and Mrs Kate Eastman of course as the barrister for the school. They are the participant in this article which we can refer to the article.
This incident was happened at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Scarlet Finney had told the Commissioner that she thought the school will take her in and she believes that the school is a very good school. She also told the Commissioner that, she had red in the book that The Hills Grammar school will take the child that is disabilities but when she applied to join the school, she had been discriminate by the school. (This can be refer at the paragraph 2 and 3)
- Source
This article I expect it might be at newspaper online or on the newspaper that had been distributed at the shops. This is because, there a writer that wrote this article and it is just based on the true event of a life. This incident had arisen the information about disability people’s right.
- Audience
This article was intended to the public society such as parents, government staffs, private staffs, disability peoples, higher board of ministry, all schools, and also to the students. The focus to this audience is want them to really realize that disability people also have their right to live happily in this world without feel neglected from the society.
- Rhetorical function
The writer of this article was tried to inform the readers about the problem that occur especially to the parents that has disability child. Like in this article, the writer had told the readers about Ms Finney problems towards her disability child. The writer also state the problem that come from the school side when the school was refuse to take Scarlet Finney as the student at the school. The writer also inform about the school that received a lots of amount of Federal and State funds but they still charge the fees that we can say not reasonable at all and the discriminate about the fees had been arising. (This can be referring to the paragraph 7).
- Purpose
The article aims to inform the publics especially the parents that have disability child, that their child have the right to stay comfortable among our society. This article also wants to show that there’s a fund from our government to support this disability child.
- Perspective
The stance taken in this article is the writer want to condemn about the school that refuses to take Scarlet Finney as a student there. The writer keeps focusing towards Scarlet Finney that she need to get her right. The writer also states a few statements that show the school is not keep their promise, for example we can refer to the caption of the article that stated “they wrote in a book that they do take children with disabilities”. The writer also state the disappointed feeling from Scarlet Finney that she thought the school will let her to go to that school but it happen against the situation.
- Positioning
The article describes that Scarlet Finney is a victim because she is a disability child. The school also performs the bias and unbalance system regarding to the Scarlet case. Like in the article, “it was a heart wrenching decision,” Ms Kate Eastman, the barrister for the school said. “But the school is not going to accept a student if it can’t provide everything to allow that child to achieve her best.” This article also show that Scarlet’s parents also feel very sad towards the school as the writer stated in the article “ we were made to feel that our daughter was an enormous burden”.
- Impact
The effect of the readers is likely to be an advice or want to keep the moral values among our societies. The effect is also focus on the self awareness that we must have in our daily life. The ministry and the government should not just close the eyes and just ignore what had happen. We must realize that the disability people also have their right in this world even though there have some difficulties to through the life but at least we as a normal people should support them.
- Visual Literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because this article is straight forward and really catchy. When the readers read this article, the will absolutely know what the problem that they are reading is. The readers also will know about the disability child that has received the bad treatment from the school that she has applied to further study there.
