Overeacting parent, or bad pupil management?

Hi everyone,

I need a bit of advise.

   My autistic son is 7 years old and currently in year 3 and on a day to day basis he seems to be coping well to school life, as well as we can expect anyway.

He goes into another class in the afternoons for apparent nuture group experience. ( thats a whole other issue).

Anyhow, over the last few weeks we have come to find out my son has not been sent home with some very important year 3 class letters. Namely a parent workshop, that i missed, a parent evening reply letter which again i now have missed and as of this week a school trip that is happening is happening early next week, only finding out because of a newsletter we received!

This bothers me, i have had gut feelings for a while that things were becoming lax regarding a few issues with him at school. Him being allowed to get out of school alone, someone not being there to meet him in morning. Also no reading record checked or homework given for at least 6 weeks. So this just added to my concerns.

To me it feels like he is being managed less efficiently as before, the letter thing in my head almost confirms things.

I rang the office and explained the issues with the letters . I was told it was probably because he isnt in his class in afternoons or because he was ill. It made me feel like a overeacting parent.

Am I?

yes these are just letters but it feels like a symtpom of a bigger issue.

Your thoughts and advise would be very welcome before I speak to the senco monday morning.

Thank you for reading, and hope you have a great day.

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  • hi,  thank you for the reply and sorry for the late response.

    He definitely isn't getting the letters at all. His teacher couldn't really explain why he didn't get them so i guess it was a fact that she forgot.

    There has since been additional 'symptoms' of bad pupil management regarding him not having his 1 to 1 meet him at the door in the mornings for the last week or so, with at one point me hearing a member of staff shouting "whos got tyler this morning?" (my son).

    If thats not bad management I don't know what is.

    I am trying to juggle proper support for my son and good school/parent  relationship. Which i must confess is becoming strained.

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  • hi,  thank you for the reply and sorry for the late response.

    He definitely isn't getting the letters at all. His teacher couldn't really explain why he didn't get them so i guess it was a fact that she forgot.

    There has since been additional 'symptoms' of bad pupil management regarding him not having his 1 to 1 meet him at the door in the mornings for the last week or so, with at one point me hearing a member of staff shouting "whos got tyler this morning?" (my son).

    If thats not bad management I don't know what is.

    I am trying to juggle proper support for my son and good school/parent  relationship. Which i must confess is becoming strained.

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