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Teenage troubles

clix

Hello, I am the Grandmother of a 17 yr old Grandson. My daughter was a single parent of 2 when we did battle with the system to get him statemented. In all it took 7 long years. In our case they had us walking through hoops and kept putting the blame on my daughter for being single and then on my Grandson as badly behaved! However we now have another hurdle to overcome and hope somebody out there can give us some glimmer of hope. He is at the moment in further education and has come to a point where he no longer is interested. He has started to miss lessons and has become disinterested. He is at a stage where he no longer knows what he wants in life and as a result has become very argumentative and showing signs of aggression. Are there any other agencies out there that can help him ? We are fast becoming at a loss as to know what to do or how to help.

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  • Thankyou so much for your comments. I feel better knowing that he will be able to access some other agencies in the future, I am compiling information as we have been requested to attend a meeting with regard to the lack of attendance and they have decided that this is to be a final chance for him in college. What shocks me is that surely something should be put in place to prevent this, we have had no indication from them other than his failure to go to college! This is so familiar to us, everything bobs along great until my grandson has a blip and they all dissapear and start to throw the blame on him and impliment sanctions,in high school it was to deprive him of his laptop which only resulted in him being unable to do any course work!. Im cerrtain that it would be different if our children had physical dissabilities! Thanks for your time. It really means something to me to have a conversation with somebody who understands. I will let you know what happens on Monday. Clix.

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  • Thankyou so much for your comments. I feel better knowing that he will be able to access some other agencies in the future, I am compiling information as we have been requested to attend a meeting with regard to the lack of attendance and they have decided that this is to be a final chance for him in college. What shocks me is that surely something should be put in place to prevent this, we have had no indication from them other than his failure to go to college! This is so familiar to us, everything bobs along great until my grandson has a blip and they all dissapear and start to throw the blame on him and impliment sanctions,in high school it was to deprive him of his laptop which only resulted in him being unable to do any course work!. Im cerrtain that it would be different if our children had physical dissabilities! Thanks for your time. It really means something to me to have a conversation with somebody who understands. I will let you know what happens on Monday. Clix.

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