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Taking primary school to court for discrimination

djbear

Hi, this is my first post. I found the forum whilst googling advice regarding my sons school.

My son is 5 he was diagnosed with Autism last year.  He started school in September 2016.

I was forced to de-register him from school last week,  I was bullied in to it by the school senco, school secretary and some teachers. I have already started legal proceedings against them as I believe the way they have treated my son and my family is disability discrimination. 

It's been devestating to go through this because my son had friends at the school, and he had worked so hard to overcome so much like his sensory issues with the uniform and other things.  He's a lovely boy.  I know the school were not giving him the proper inclusion help he needed.

My daughter was due to start in September too.  This has caused us so much grief. Looks like I will have to move to be able to access another school as we live in semi rural area. I doubt that will happen before shes meant to start in September, and could I send my son to another mainstream? I fear the same scenario would occur. I wanted my kids to go to the same school. Gutted.

Thanks for listening just so stressed and have no support.

  • Former Member
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    djbear said:

    Maybe the school thought that I was autistic that's why they thought they could getaway with discrimination against my son?

    That is possible but my experience of dealing with people tells me that most people are simply not very skilled at dealing with autistic people. If they can't deal with an autistic child then they probably can't handle an autistic parent. It isn't likely to be malice, it is much more likely to be a c$%k-up rather than a conspiracy.

    Some mainstream schools are really good at this, some are frankly a waste of space

  • Thanks for your response. Yes, my partner and my son both have a diagnosis of autism. I'm not autistic just hurt over the way my son has been treated. 

    Maybe the school thought that I was autistic that's why they thought they could getaway with discrimination against my son? 

    Ive gathered quite a lot of evidence against the school and have been advised by contact a family that my son has been discriminated against. 

    I would like to get justice for him because it breaks my heart the way people with disabilities are treated. 

  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Welcome to the forum! There are lots of people with autism and parents of children with autism and some who are both!

    The local school may be hopeless at dealing with a kid with autism. I suspect that you won't be able to beat it into the school to do things differently by taking them to court! Are there any other schools that you could take your children to? I know this might seem like giving in but I would question whether pursuing a legal case is the best use of your time and energy. I have autism and I have also been involved with legal cases - the law is an ass and generally works fine for the legal professionals but it often fails miserably to get things sorted out.

    Have you checked out whether you (one or both parents) are also on the spectrum? Having to resort to legal action might just mean that you (like me) are not the most diplomatically skilled of people. There is a free test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that gives a useful indication (the test comes from the very respectable autism research group at Cambridge University)