Due to major emotional distress caused by schooling and the fear that my childrens emotional wellbeing is far from being safeguarded i have found myself keeping my children home, The difficulties we have faced have been ongoing for some time and i have lost count of the amount of times i have tried to sort things out with school only to be completley disregarded by them.
The stress has become so great that my children now refuse school and have real issues surrounding it.
As i have found myself in this position the schools have offered after completley ignoring me for so long, to sort of cater for this. however the help they are now offering up has come much too late as the damage in regards to their trust and being comfortable in that environment is already done, my eldest particularly looks as though she will miss out on exams due to her refusal to complete coursework which must be done in school so i have to now find an alternative or she will not gain qualifications in these areas, this means more expense.
My youngest daughters school( a special school) has offered for her to do a partial timetable and for staff to work with her outside school, completley useless as we have a major meldown now at the thought of having anything to do with school due to being humiliated, disegarded, and emotionally tormented by staff there.
I am aware that schools have to cater for school refusers but will that stretch to just input of financial help and allowing the parent to make educational decisions with that help. as this time the education situation we have found ourselves in has not actually been elective more forced upon me by the schools failings. To cater for my child needs now means that the school needs to be removed from the equation altogether due to the distress this causes.
Where i live the authority is useless at catering for high functioning autism the choice is either mainstream and all of the emotionall stress and ignorant teaching staff that comes with it which in our case has just been too much or special school which quite frankly has also been useless and was rather ignorant to my childs needs. Autism specific schools in my area are saved for low functioning Autism.
we are desperate for schools which will aknowledge the needs of high functioning autism, the fact that the educational ability is there but there are other needs which must be addressed for the emotional wellbeing of the child.
does anyone know where i stand with this one?
