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Barred from Science (Health & Safety reasons)

MulgaBill

Our oldest boy (he's an Aspie) has just moved up to S2 (we're in Scotland) and, as well as all the usual turmoil involved in changing classes, he came home today to tell me that "I was locked out of Science". When I asked what had happened, he said his new science teacher had shut the classroom door in his face and locked it. He didn't know what was happening, so he stood outside the classroom until his guidance teacher eventually showed up. She told him that he wasn't allowed to do science for "health and safety reasons", and he'd have to spend science classes doing "other things" in the special needs area. It's ludicrous as science was his best subject in S1 and the teacher he had throughout never had a safety issue with him.

Has anyone managed to challenge a decision like this? And how?

BTW, I'm on my fourth letter to the school in 10 days to the school, copied to the QIO and Head of Education, not that they ever reply or take any notice. Yesterday's letter was about our boy being kept out of all his classes for an entire day, so he played computer games and watched videos in the special needs area. He doesn't know why and no one from the SMT was available to explain why. (He was quite happy to have a "day off", but I'm not.)

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  • The impression of school teachers ganging up on the disabled kid doesn't convey a reassuring message about rural communities in Scotland. And reading your last post, that's what it sounds like.

    Twenty or thirty years ago the western seaboard and the isles and some east coast districts could be quite intolerant and bigoted, with very narrow attitudes, like the headmaster who destroyed the Christmas tree presented for the kids because he disliked idolatry.

    One likes to think this has gone away, but clearly it hasn't, from what you describe. Are you in an area where you cannot do any kind of work on the Sabbath and they still believe there are witches in their community? I'm not being facetious, there were parts of Scotland until comparatively recent times with such deep set ideas.

    Is this an indication of intolerance and bigotry in the community you live within?

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  • The impression of school teachers ganging up on the disabled kid doesn't convey a reassuring message about rural communities in Scotland. And reading your last post, that's what it sounds like.

    Twenty or thirty years ago the western seaboard and the isles and some east coast districts could be quite intolerant and bigoted, with very narrow attitudes, like the headmaster who destroyed the Christmas tree presented for the kids because he disliked idolatry.

    One likes to think this has gone away, but clearly it hasn't, from what you describe. Are you in an area where you cannot do any kind of work on the Sabbath and they still believe there are witches in their community? I'm not being facetious, there were parts of Scotland until comparatively recent times with such deep set ideas.

    Is this an indication of intolerance and bigotry in the community you live within?

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