How I have missed you lot
Ds is having this term off as some of you know...but the school has asked for a Dr's letter to keep his place open till Autumn. As I'm not entirely sure what he will want to do later in the year, I agreed to this rather than dereg, but it did feel awkward writing to the GP to ask for the letter as there is nothing wrong with Ds.
Anyway we went to see her this am as she asked me to bring him, and she was totally, totally hostile to the idea of him having the term off - despite it being a roaring success, fait accompli almost at this stage - he has regressed a little, which has been good for him - he has now turned five, we have been investigating the wonders of leaves with a magnifying glass, learning about bees etc, the human body - he's loving it!
But she just went on and on about the legal implications, how 'depriving him' of the social thing of reception etc etc was going to propagate a life time of avoiding things when the going got tough and did I really want him to grow up that way, and worst of all, had I spoken to my therapist about all this as though I am keeping him off because of my own issues.
I said only in a roundabout way as I do have issues, which she is aware of, but was trying hard to keep them and him separate in my mind. And that we had given school a good shot till Easter, and that I agreed that socialisation was important
She had NO idea that legally he didn't have to be in school till Sept and said she would need to check that out
I was insistent that I was happy for her notto write the sodding letter if it made her uncomfortable. But she seemed very doubtful about the whole thing, no mention even made of HE, and I now feel terrified that she will try and put a spanner in the works, report me to SS or something - get a court order to stop him being HE'd? Can she do that?
Panicking as you can tell..
Sorry to come back with such a problem. I will be catching up with you all I hope!
I am planning to change GP's soon as we're moving, but just really actually offended that she was so rude as to suggest I have my own agenda in not taking him to school - it is a separate issue that there were times last term when we didn't make it due to my depression, but I think she is intelligent to know that it's a different issue.
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Flightybitchreturns · 13/06/2008 10:25
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