The 16th-century German reformer Martin Luther once observed in the town of Dessau a child that "when one touched, then it cried out. When any evil happened in the house then it laughed and was joyful, but when all went well, then it cried and was very sad."

He concluded his study by deeming the child demonic and proposing that such devilish children be exterminated.

The child mentioned was probably neurologically disabled, perhaps autistic. Sadly while perceptions and attitudes towards such children may have moved on from Luther's day they are still hardly acceptable.

Families with disabled children are used to ignorance and contempt from those unaffected by disabilities. But we do not expect such views to be held by those we place our trust in.

But these are precisely the attitudes we are seeing in education, if my own experience of Glasgow Council's education board is any guide.

The council is happy to comment on its £80 million investment in mainstream schools for the period 2013-15.

But its silence concerning a £2m cut in funding for SENs - special educational needs schools - is deafening.

The figure is a drop in the ocean in relation to the expenditure the council ring-fences for more neurologically typical children.

And the funding being taken away is vital for vulnerable children to secure adequate resources that can enhance their chance of becoming productive citizens.

My son's school, Broomlea primary, has been particularly badly hit by the council's cutbacks - I wonder if this is linked to its location in the Possilpark area, recognised as one of the most impoverished parts of Britain.

I and the Broomlea Parents Council met the council education board's head of inclusion John Butcher back in May 2013 to fight to retain our after-school and summer-school provisions - as well as to enquire when the school would get replacements for the six teaching instructors it had been stripped of over the year.

Butcher quoted an earlier exchange he had had with me on the lost after-school and summer-school resources - "I understand this is not ideal, however it is not our core business or a statutory requirement."

The crude use of the term "core business" from the man responsible for inclusion in education is as revealing as it is depressing.

Our hopes for after-school and summer-school services, which the children rely on heavily due to their reliance on continuity and specialised occupational therapy, were dashed.

And that took away what is probably the only recreational environment available for disabled kids out of term, unless you count once-a-month autism-friendly cinema screenings.

We were at least assured that we would receive permanent replacement staff for the next term.

But that pledge has not materialised - and to our horror, any such agreement was said not to have been made.

Butcher has not responded to our correspondance, while his boss, director of education Maureen McKenna, has been confusing to say the least.

On September 17 she wrote: "Five support for learning instructors were redeployed from Broomlea primary to other establishments" and that "it has been agreed that Broomlea will receive additional support for learning workers to compensate for the loss of support for learning instructors, however to date we have been unable to secure additional resources to be placed within Broomlea."

Let's leave aside whether the shift from "support for learning instructors" to "support for learning workers" may represent de-skilling, since we still don't have either.

McKenna claimed that we could be "assured that Broomlea will be prioritised" for recruitment.

But on September 23 we were told: "I have checked again the staffing situation at the school. There are no teacher vacancies."

Just like that. No explanation, just a dismissive claim that "I do not accept that the children's education has been compromised due to staff shortage."

McKenna claims Broomlea is the priority of a recruitment drive, and then a week later says there are no vacancies there.

This isn't simply poor spin-doctoring. It's morally bankrupt. How can a person in her position state that these agreements to replace staff never existed, when meetings and email correspondence exist as documentation of these facts?

Scotland has seen a rise in pupils with additional support needs from 69,587 in 2010 to 118,034 in 2012 - a near 100 per cent increase due to early intervention.

Yet individualised education programmes for pupils have actually decreased from 43,278 in 2010 to 42,847 in 2012.

This reflects a pattern of widespread negligence that is being swept under the carpet. The staffing situation currently at the school is in my view stretched to the extent of compromising the quality and delivery of education, besides possibly posing a health and safety risk.

When you consider that some of these kids are in complex apparatuses, such as wheelchairs and other motor support devices, the idea that we can drop staff numbers by six without increasing the possibility of hazards is hard to swallow.

And the dedicated, talented staff are being forced to work under extreme conditions as a result.

And all because of the "core business" agenda of council budgeting.

The council assures us of funds ring-fenced per sector. But surely its budget is determined by the overall funds available.

Half a billion - £523m to be exact - is being thrown at the Commonwealth Games extravaganza, while another £380m is being used to redevelop the surrounding area of Buchanan Galleries.

But as a minority group the disabled remain invisible, and are prone to institutional negligence. They are not invested in or nurtured.

This I cannot accept. Neither should we as a society.

The newly adapted Glasgow tourist marketing slogan says that "people make Glasgow." Not people such as my child, obviously.