Student Information:
Name : Tommy
Age : 9 Year in school: 4
School : SD Rejosari, public elementary school in East Java province, Indonesia
School region : rural; lower-socio economic area
School outcomes : the number of pupils entering secondary education from this school is 95%. Drop-out rate is around 5% with various reasons such as move to the city with parents trying to find jobs, early marriage, helping parents to work in the farm and move overseas to join parents become migrant worker.
Brief description on Tommy: Several schools in Malang, East Java, have requested inclusive education training. This request is based upon the experience of Rejosari primary school when they have student with behaviour problems at their school. As a programme officer responsible for this area, I studied the documents and made some observations in related schools to make rationale to allocate budget for this request. According to the report by the school, Tommy has had a behaviour problem since beginning of primary school. He has problems with his interpersonal relationships and sometimes shows an aggressive behaviour towards his friends. He has low academic achievement though he has passed all subjects. In the third year in primary school, his teacher has given various interventions with minimum success resulted to solve his behaviour problem. Tommy has difficulties in listening to teacher during the class, and he gets bored easily that in the end he will make some trouble that will annoy his friends. He often teases some of his friends, especially girls, and some of them even cry. When the teacher tries to punish him, he regrets his behaviour and is sad to be punished. However, the punishment seems to have no effect on him since he keep bothering his friends, either during class or outside the class. Although it has been noticed from the beginning of his year in the school, the school has not properly responded