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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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  • hey janet,

    exactly the same thing happened to my sin when he was in maintream. the way it was explained to me was,, they had a few special needs children in the school, that all had differing hours in statement, and wot they did was , to try cover  ALL the hours, was they split it, so altho my son had some 1 - 1 time,  it was generaly shared, so he wasnt restricted to ONLy his statemented hours..  he was given 20 hours,. but really needed more,,  as did some other children., so what they did was give each SOME 1 - 1 , but then  have a few at a time to cover the other hours. if thats makes sense. however., im not so sure this is really what they were doing,, if they had given my son  his 20 hours, and it wasnt enoough, we coud have fought better to get him more hours. as it was, i moved him from mainstream into a special needs school, and he;s never bn  happier, it;s amazing the difference in him, i used to worry about him being behind, and not hitting targets etc, but yo see him smiling everyday is worth so much more than the academic stuff. in mainstream, he was stressed,  even bullied, now he fits in so well,  in a class of only 9, with a teachers and 3 support staff. i worried so much about him moving from maintream to SN school, but  the smile makes it all worth it !

    julez x

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  • hey janet,

    exactly the same thing happened to my sin when he was in maintream. the way it was explained to me was,, they had a few special needs children in the school, that all had differing hours in statement, and wot they did was , to try cover  ALL the hours, was they split it, so altho my son had some 1 - 1 time,  it was generaly shared, so he wasnt restricted to ONLy his statemented hours..  he was given 20 hours,. but really needed more,,  as did some other children., so what they did was give each SOME 1 - 1 , but then  have a few at a time to cover the other hours. if thats makes sense. however., im not so sure this is really what they were doing,, if they had given my son  his 20 hours, and it wasnt enoough, we coud have fought better to get him more hours. as it was, i moved him from mainstream into a special needs school, and he;s never bn  happier, it;s amazing the difference in him, i used to worry about him being behind, and not hitting targets etc, but yo see him smiling everyday is worth so much more than the academic stuff. in mainstream, he was stressed,  even bullied, now he fits in so well,  in a class of only 9, with a teachers and 3 support staff. i worried so much about him moving from maintream to SN school, but  the smile makes it all worth it !

    julez x

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