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Statements !!

valley girl

I am sure that many of you out there have been through the nightmare of refusals to assess,refusals to issue statements and trying to deal with Sendist. We took 3 years to get my nine year old sons statement and we were over the moon when it arrived in July. Great we thought - things will be much easier now. Not so !! Even though he has a statement for 23 hours a week I am still having to chase up everything, go and see the teacher everyweek and generally check everything is being provided. My relationship with the school is getting worse rather than better.

My son is in Year 5 now and we need to start considering secondary schools. We try to be positive but I cant see him surviving there let alone making progress.

Is anyone else feeling this way or had the same problems  or have any advice !!

Are Statements worth the paper they are printed on !!

xxx

 

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  • We had similar from our nursery/infant school. The head teacher said we'd never get a statement (and we've heard from other parents a similar line being rattled off). She seems to have a real problem with statements and maybe SEN children in general and that attitude seems to have percolated down to the SENCo and staff. The SENCo is a class teacher and gets 1/2 day a week to be SENCo. You have to wonder from what standpoint they make these sweeping statements and it's not their decision at the end of the day anyway. My daugther is academically bright and way ahead in reading and maths, but we're expecting her draft statement by the end of the month. I'm just not sure whether to give the head teacher a copy in a nice wooden frame or fold it into a hat she can eat. What do you think?

    ojqmum said:

    The mainstream school my son was at told me that I would never get a statement because my son was too clever and needed to be 2 years academically behind before anything could be done.  I thought they were the experts and knew what they were doing so i believed them!  How wrong I was!!  After a long traumatic journey my son now has a statement and started at a special school in September where he is finally being taught the life skills he needs in order to survive by dedicated caring professionals who DO know what they are doing xxx

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  • We had similar from our nursery/infant school. The head teacher said we'd never get a statement (and we've heard from other parents a similar line being rattled off). She seems to have a real problem with statements and maybe SEN children in general and that attitude seems to have percolated down to the SENCo and staff. The SENCo is a class teacher and gets 1/2 day a week to be SENCo. You have to wonder from what standpoint they make these sweeping statements and it's not their decision at the end of the day anyway. My daugther is academically bright and way ahead in reading and maths, but we're expecting her draft statement by the end of the month. I'm just not sure whether to give the head teacher a copy in a nice wooden frame or fold it into a hat she can eat. What do you think?

    ojqmum said:

    The mainstream school my son was at told me that I would never get a statement because my son was too clever and needed to be 2 years academically behind before anything could be done.  I thought they were the experts and knew what they were doing so i believed them!  How wrong I was!!  After a long traumatic journey my son now has a statement and started at a special school in September where he is finally being taught the life skills he needs in order to survive by dedicated caring professionals who DO know what they are doing xxx

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