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School Exclusion

Dav2

Hi everyone 

New to posting. My son who is 13 years old really struggling in school no ECHP but incoming diagnosis after being on the waiting list. Has a love art and graffiti which we channeled in a safe environment at home. Unfortunately this has extended to the toilets at across the whole school  network. He had no idea of the consequences.  It has led to a fixed exclusion due to the scale of it. It became a way of coping and stimming to deal with the pressure he feels at school not as deliberate vandalism.The school  are not very supportive and just dealing with him as a vandalising the school. He feels very broken and so scared to return to school. He is started telling me he has no purpose which is so upsetting. He’s such a lovely boy with not even a behaviour point before this who has channeled his anxiety into something very destructive. We are feel a it broken this last three days. Any advice out there are comments would be so welcomed 

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  • I wonder if a social story or comic strip story or similar might help him to understand the difference between art and vandalism. Is he good with rules? A clear rule that we need permission before we can do our art on something might be helpful?

    I'm sorry the school haven't been supportive. I can understand from the schools perspective they cannot allow graffiti in their toilets. But some understanding as to why he did it and how they can support him in the future would be helpful. It would be good if they could allow him an outlet for his art to help him cope rather than him needing to resort to doing it in the toilets.

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  • I wonder if a social story or comic strip story or similar might help him to understand the difference between art and vandalism. Is he good with rules? A clear rule that we need permission before we can do our art on something might be helpful?

    I'm sorry the school haven't been supportive. I can understand from the schools perspective they cannot allow graffiti in their toilets. But some understanding as to why he did it and how they can support him in the future would be helpful. It would be good if they could allow him an outlet for his art to help him cope rather than him needing to resort to doing it in the toilets.

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