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Overeacting parent, or bad pupil management?

Nickyboynoo

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.

Parents

  • hi, thanks for your reply.

    What you have said has rung a huge bell in my head. We also looked into home schooling several times since he started school.

    Before he started school we had taught him to read at a much more advanced level to what he was expected to be at his age. Mathematics was the same. He has always seemed to be more open to learning at home than at school for obvious reasons.

    The thing is we saw the social aspect of school a huge plus so decided it was for the best and it did help him in many ways. As time has gone by we believe he has become less and less compatible with hectic school day. So as you can understand, these thoughts have crept back in our minds.

     

    Thank you again for your reply.

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  • hi, thanks for your reply.

    What you have said has rung a huge bell in my head. We also looked into home schooling several times since he started school.

    Before he started school we had taught him to read at a much more advanced level to what he was expected to be at his age. Mathematics was the same. He has always seemed to be more open to learning at home than at school for obvious reasons.

    The thing is we saw the social aspect of school a huge plus so decided it was for the best and it did help him in many ways. As time has gone by we believe he has become less and less compatible with hectic school day. So as you can understand, these thoughts have crept back in our minds.

     

    Thank you again for your reply.

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