hello ...
I have a 12 yr old DS who has been home-schooled since he was 9 ½ due to chronic anxiety because of school phobia (i.e. not school refusal!)..... We have ever since been desperately looking for a relaxed school with no uniform in the South East, (we're based in Surrey on the borders of Kent & West/East Sussex). DS has some small sensory processing issues which are tactile related hence the problems with wearing a school uniform. Otherwise, he is a bright and and very capable young person so a special needs school potentially wouldn't be suitable. Mainstream schools have routinely been equally unsuitable because of their rigid rules and overly formal approach although to be fair we have exclusively only attended schools in the private sector; a state school would now be impossible at secondary level because of the sheer weight & volume in the number of pupils likely to be on roll which clearly wouldn't work well with anxiety issues. We have been on an incredibly painful and difficult journey throughout all of this and the resulting chronic school phobia is heartbreaking while DS is such a super sociable, clever, kind, giving and funny boy who deserves more. We have some wonderfully brilliant tutors helping us with our home education but would love to be able to give DS the opportunity to consider school again without fear but it will have to be somewhere that really 'cares' (is there such a place?).... i..e. somewhere that is able to see the bigger picture and that can truthfully extend a positive and thoughtful pathway back into education without the curse and unnecessary obstructions of petty why's and wherefore's....
Sorry to sound so cynical but we really have been on an incredibly punishing and useless journey.
Does anyone know AnYwHeRe????..........
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Chopstick090404 · 01/06/2016 18:18
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