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mainstream v special

george

My son matthew is 6 years old and is in mainstream school. he has a Statement and gets lots of support from a very nice teaching assistant who is with him most of the time. He seems reasonably happy, however he does not really play with his peers and is falling further and further behind his classmates academically. I recently visited a Special Needs school and was very impressed. I am now beginning to reconsider my earlier decision to keep him in a mainstream school. Although he gets lots of support is he been taught in the correct way, self esteem etc etc does anyone have any views?

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  • hello mhairi

    Thats it in a nutshell no understanding from the school at all. We have been told that the previous HFA kid they had was happy their but it is such a broad range what works for one does not work for others. We have had less eye contact and he has taken to closing himself in a dark cupboard.

    Mine like yours gets called a name or kicked punched pushed one day and 2 weeks later retailiates as it is still fresh for him. The school are branding him a bully and me a trouble maker for trying to get this stopped.

    He was playing tag with 3 boys a few weeks back they then stopped and one boy ran along a small wall and did a flying kick at his face while he was putting a shoe back on. he ended up with a mark on his face and detention!! he must have done something to wind the boy up!! 

    I feel let down badly. I will admit that while home schooling for the week it was both nice but very tiring. His routine had been changed and that put him in a spin and he found it hard. The no break was also tiring yet the fact you knew your child was safe was a big stress reliever.

    Our pyschologist is great but east ayrshire has no resourses wants no resourses and is a depressed area for lots of reasons.

    What wpould be great is if we could adopt the norwegian way for these kids. They have a resourse in most schools where high functioning kids are put in groups of 5 or 6 given a room with a teacher and a spare teacher that they see a few times week in case the regular one is ill. They keep that teacher that room n those classmates through out the whole of school. They have an area of the playground supervised where they have toys to play with that mainstream kids can come in and play but it is supervised.

    They are integrated at gym and a few activities. Not too much to ask a room in a school with a teacher!!

    Our area will not discuss half school half home. 

    Good luck to you too hope your boy gets the help too . 

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  • hello mhairi

    Thats it in a nutshell no understanding from the school at all. We have been told that the previous HFA kid they had was happy their but it is such a broad range what works for one does not work for others. We have had less eye contact and he has taken to closing himself in a dark cupboard.

    Mine like yours gets called a name or kicked punched pushed one day and 2 weeks later retailiates as it is still fresh for him. The school are branding him a bully and me a trouble maker for trying to get this stopped.

    He was playing tag with 3 boys a few weeks back they then stopped and one boy ran along a small wall and did a flying kick at his face while he was putting a shoe back on. he ended up with a mark on his face and detention!! he must have done something to wind the boy up!! 

    I feel let down badly. I will admit that while home schooling for the week it was both nice but very tiring. His routine had been changed and that put him in a spin and he found it hard. The no break was also tiring yet the fact you knew your child was safe was a big stress reliever.

    Our pyschologist is great but east ayrshire has no resourses wants no resourses and is a depressed area for lots of reasons.

    What wpould be great is if we could adopt the norwegian way for these kids. They have a resourse in most schools where high functioning kids are put in groups of 5 or 6 given a room with a teacher and a spare teacher that they see a few times week in case the regular one is ill. They keep that teacher that room n those classmates through out the whole of school. They have an area of the playground supervised where they have toys to play with that mainstream kids can come in and play but it is supervised.

    They are integrated at gym and a few activities. Not too much to ask a room in a school with a teacher!!

    Our area will not discuss half school half home. 

    Good luck to you too hope your boy gets the help too . 

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