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Advice needed regarding school

willsmum

Hi, I'm at the end of my tether.  My son is 10, attends mainstream school.  He has struggled for years and finally now he's in year 6 he has a good teacher who seems to understand him and goes out of her way to help him.  My problem is with his PE teacher, he has her all afternoon on a Monday and Thursday.  She seems to find things to be difficult about in my opinion to antagonise him.  He will not touch the colour green, if he does touch green he needs to touch  red straightaway otherwise he explodes.  I have agreed with his class teacher that he wears a red charity bracelet on his wrist to counteract touching green.  His PE teacher takes his bracelet off him and puts it in her pocket for the whole lesson and won't give him it back until hometime.  She regularly throws green vests for him to wear and he refuses to put it on, ending in an argument with her.  She refuses to allow him to use the toilet last week, when he asked to go, she replied "Do you have something else wrong with you I haven't been told about" and laughed at him.  He was awarded a house president badge, she told him he didn't deserve to wear it resulting in him having a meltdown in the classroom.   I am seriously thinking of home schooling him I feel he's getting depressed.  I've spoken to his class teacher who says she will have a word with the PE teacher but nothing seems to change.  Has anyone else on here had similiar problems at school.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Don't let your child suffer needlessly, go straight to the head teacher and say you are considering making a formal complaint against the PE teacher and I guarantee it will get things sorted, the class teacher is not enough.  I was in a similar situation with my sons teacher and T.A. last year and as soon as I mentioned formal complaint, they have to fill in paperwork and log your request.  In the end I did'nt need to as the mere threat got things fixed for him.  The best way is to stand your ground, not go in all guns blazing and shouting gets you nowhere. Ask for an appointment asap and don't wait til after christmas, write everything down that your PE teacher has been doing and saying, make a list of requests and give them a structured period of time that you would like things addressed in and also say that you feel strongly enough that if nothing is done you will write to the board of govenors (this is above the headteacher) as no child deserves to be treated this way.  In essence you're child is being bullied for his disability albeit undiagnosed (most of us are in the process of it somewhere) but that still means he has to be treated with respect, his bullying is psychological that is unacceptable.  Imagine if this was in a factory somewhere an employee like this would be facing a formal warning or even dismissal because of their behaviour, don't stand for it you are your son's champion, stand your ground and go for it, let me know how you get on.

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  • Don't let your child suffer needlessly, go straight to the head teacher and say you are considering making a formal complaint against the PE teacher and I guarantee it will get things sorted, the class teacher is not enough.  I was in a similar situation with my sons teacher and T.A. last year and as soon as I mentioned formal complaint, they have to fill in paperwork and log your request.  In the end I did'nt need to as the mere threat got things fixed for him.  The best way is to stand your ground, not go in all guns blazing and shouting gets you nowhere. Ask for an appointment asap and don't wait til after christmas, write everything down that your PE teacher has been doing and saying, make a list of requests and give them a structured period of time that you would like things addressed in and also say that you feel strongly enough that if nothing is done you will write to the board of govenors (this is above the headteacher) as no child deserves to be treated this way.  In essence you're child is being bullied for his disability albeit undiagnosed (most of us are in the process of it somewhere) but that still means he has to be treated with respect, his bullying is psychological that is unacceptable.  Imagine if this was in a factory somewhere an employee like this would be facing a formal warning or even dismissal because of their behaviour, don't stand for it you are your son's champion, stand your ground and go for it, let me know how you get on.

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