Obviously we shall appeal, but want to know how to go about it next time.
Am angry and feel frustrated.
As you may know, ds is 5, has Aspergers and is not coping at school. Is constantly being taken out of the classroom, we have been asked to take him out of school at lunchtime, he has learned nothing at all and in fact regressed in his ability, the school admits it can't cope, his paed supports a statement, but apparently a whole year in school isn't long enough to say he isn't coping, and because he is be 'prioritised' by the educational psychologist at the start of next year that is sufficient reason to refuse a statement. At the end of term there was nobody in place to help him in the classroom at all - which is just our worst nightmare. The ed psych is only seeing him because we went into the school all guns blazing and insisted on meetings, on changes (the school even resisted a home/school book), on greater classroom support, none of which is guaranteed for yr1.
Any advice?
I told the woman in Southwark SEN that I knew perfectly well this was a way of saving money, and that if they hoped that we'd be too exhausted, depressed and demoralised to appeal, they had another think coming. Because though it is clear they couldn't care less about another five year old being left to sink without trace in Southwark's education system, we weren't going to let that happen. And yes, it is exhausting, depressing and demoralising, but we have to do this for our son. Woman started muttering something about 'all teh children are fairly assessed' etc and I just found myself saying, 'yeah right! Yada yada yada'.
I actually attended a meeting about special needs policy in Southwark in which someone from the LEA actually said than they wanted to phase out statements altogether in Southwark, and there wouldn't be any need for them because the provision would be so good. Provision? What provision.
Bastards.
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aloha · 10/08/2007 15:18
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