The government is violating the constitution by failing to educate many children with disabilities. More than half a million disabled children have been tossed to the way side and are currently not in school.The NGO, Human Rights Watch lifted the lid of the scourge of this problem yesterday when it released its report entitled: "‘Complicit in Exclusion’: South Africa’s Failure to Guarantee an Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities”.The impact of governments failure is highlighted by the case of Sandile Ndlazi who is 24 years old living with cerebral palsy but has never been to school. He has only learned his basic syllables.The HRW went out to five provinces and found that South Africa has failed to guarantee the right to education for people with disabilities due to widespread discrimination in enrolment decisions.Reasons for the problem include long waiting lists, lack of accommodation and transport and high school fee's.The report found that there is a "lack of governmental oversight of waiting lists". Organisations claim that lists have up to 400 names on them, delaying admissions.Children have to travel 30 to 100 kilometres to the access the nearest school that will take them, the report found. This hiked up transport costs for parents. Schools also do not have ramps to accommodate for wheelchairs.There are no special schools that are currently "no- fee" schools", the report found. Prices for special fee schools range from R350- 750 a month.The report also noted "numerous cases" of physical violence and neglect of children and young adults with disabilities.Many children at school become "travellers" because they move up or down between different grades without learning anything, often repeating, the report found.Young adults who have disabilities also have a small chance of accessing tertiary education, the report added.Elin Martínez, children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, and author of the report, said: “The South African government needs to admit that it is not providing quality education to all of its children – in fact, no schooling at all to many who have disabilities. The job is not done until all children count just the same in the education system.”The department of basic education failed to respond...