I imagine a lot of you here have had to do this at some point or another.
DS is 9, autistic, along with many other issues, and has been to a total of 4 mainstream schools in his life. The most recent was fantastic, until a new head teacher came along, and it has now become the same as the others in terms of our problems.
DS is/was relentlessly bullied, we have witnessed this in our own front garden from kids in his class. He was frequently left out of school outings (as we, his parents, were not able to attend with him and this was the condition of participation), he was also left out of activities within the school.
This school has many children with various autistic spectrum disorders and since the new head arrived a year ago, seven (that I know of) have left, a further 4 have gone part-time, spending some time at an education centre, and several other parents have noted their DC being excluded from activities for reasons which they disagree with (not behaviour related, but things like "oh he doesn't like the gym hall echo so he won't be taking part" while the DC in question deny ever having said such thing.
Anyway. I've had enough.
Countless meetings with school staff, attempts to get DS into a specialist school etc have failed.
DS at 9 could not tell the time, his writing is illegible, has no understanding of the most basic maths skills... Well that's just what was obvious to me.
I never sent him back after the summer holidays. I requested that the head remove him from the register and explained my reasons. I stated that I intended to home educate.
And that is exactly what we have been doing.
DS is much more relaxed, wetting the bed less, actually using words to communicate, it's like a different child.
In the beginning, I didn't really have a clue what I was doing and picked up some workbooks from Tesco to go through with him and try to get an idea of where he was at, he managed the books for 5-7 year olds with a lot of help.
As the weeks have went by I have realised that DS simply does not learn this way. He learns very practically and needs visual explanations to understand concepts.
His personal wellbeing and educational understanding has improved massively.
Now the council want to see an education plan, I know that our way is working for DS currently, but we don't really follow a set timetable like they do at school, we don't focus on "it's time to do maths", we take it as it comes.
So I'm not really sure what to put into the plan, or how long it has to be. Can I just list the subjects we're covering and how we are doing so? Is that good enough? Or do I need to be able to show lesson plans and a long term outlook? I found some things online but they were mostly American and I'm not sure just how different the systems are with stuff like this?
Can anyone offer some insight?
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BonesyBones · 22/10/2017 20:37
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