Hi
My DS is in year 12. He attends a grammar which was very supportive. He has an EHCP. He is academically able but has severe social anxiety and very slow processing. He failed both English gcses (not enough written even with extra time, what he writes is certainly pass quality, and he has excellent reading, and spag skills) but was allowed to stay on as they know he's bright and they know moving settings would be really hard on him.
DS is doing maths, physics, computing.
He is drowning under homework, esp. For maths. He gets a whole booklet that says it should take an hour; it takes ds 3 or 4 hours. He has very rigid views around where and when he can work and it is almost impossible to make him work at home. School has offered him to stay behind to work but he's only done so a couple of times. I have had stern words multiple times but it's v hard with ds as you have to tread a balance between making him face up to things and tipping him into paralysing anxiety which means he withdraws completely (he already spends long periods under his duvet in a darkened room). I feel like he really needs the structure of school - Summer was horrendous - and he understands everything but can not keep up with the homework. He would not be capable of interviewing for a job or apprenticeship as when faced with new people he cannot speak at all and tries to hide.
If you teach in a sixth form, can you make adjustments to homework volume for kids with ehcp? Or is it a case if, if he can't keep up, despite understanding all content, he should do something different instead of A levels?
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FloatingthroughSpace · 29/11/2018 13:36
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