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autism in mainstream school

chris and carly

hi everyone, first time post as ive never found i needed advice but this has me confused. my daughter is 4 and a half in a mainstream school. she has a statement of educational needs which includes the need for her to have supervised help at all times. when talking to her teacher the other day she mentioned one of her tantrums came from the fact her one to one teacher was helping another student as her class is busy. is this not correct as theoretically this support teacher is my daughters? another question is about attendance, some days it is physically impossible for my daughter to learn, her teacher tells us when she has a 'rage' her words not mine, that she affects the learning of all sfudents and is unteachable herself. this is fair enough but days when my daughter is like this the headteacher advised us to maybe keep her off school. its maybe once a week, if that. now he has told us her attendance is unacceptable and is taking no responsibilty. is a child with a statement 100% obliged in attendance than other children. sorry for the rambles but its reallg affecting us as her teacher seems to be bringing up the name of the local disability school more and more when anyone that meets my girl says they never suspect her to have autism. thank you

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  • it certainly is illegal exclusion, and your childs 1;1 is provided for your child not for other children as well at busy times,if the 1:1 is helping someone else another 1:1 should be provided, this is failing to meet your childs needs and not meeting what is set out in her statement. if i were you i would start to get the schools views on these things in writing, personally we e mailed everything as the schools have a tendancy to loose correspondance or not recieve it. It will make them very aware that you are watching them very closely, and a record of what school has said and done may be usefull at some point, particularly if things go wrong.

    of course if you feel that the school is unsuited to your child you have every right to request a review of the statement and ask that another school be named along with reasons for that

    get youself a copy of the sen code of practice and read it.

    schools get away with this kind of thing far too much,  dont be afraid to follow the complaints procedure and avoid informal chats, if it must be a meeting ask for minutes and ask to see them to make sure they are an accurate representation of what is said. 

     

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  • it certainly is illegal exclusion, and your childs 1;1 is provided for your child not for other children as well at busy times,if the 1:1 is helping someone else another 1:1 should be provided, this is failing to meet your childs needs and not meeting what is set out in her statement. if i were you i would start to get the schools views on these things in writing, personally we e mailed everything as the schools have a tendancy to loose correspondance or not recieve it. It will make them very aware that you are watching them very closely, and a record of what school has said and done may be usefull at some point, particularly if things go wrong.

    of course if you feel that the school is unsuited to your child you have every right to request a review of the statement and ask that another school be named along with reasons for that

    get youself a copy of the sen code of practice and read it.

    schools get away with this kind of thing far too much,  dont be afraid to follow the complaints procedure and avoid informal chats, if it must be a meeting ask for minutes and ask to see them to make sure they are an accurate representation of what is said. 

     

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