Hello, hoping to find some reassurance and maybe some good advice. Have just moved within LA and trying to pick a new mainstream school for DD, who has global developmental delay. Her EHCP specifies full-time 1:1 support, she needs support with self-care and lots of work on language and communication. We are requesting for her to repeat Reception at the new school as she's one of the youngest and we've been told she wouldn't be able to access the year 1 curriculum if she started it this September.
Finding it really hard to know how to choose a suitable school, let alone a good one. Our experience is that schools that don't really want us just have to be a bit unfriendly (oh, our playground is so big and some classrooms are upstairs, we're not really equipped for your daughter)(well, we really value community here and you probably wouldn't like that)(we think you're wrong about the new SEND rules and we would never go over 30 per class anyway). As soon as they send that unfriendly signal, we feel like they've proved themselves unsuitable for DD. How can we trust them to work their hardest for DD if they don't want her in the first place? How can we believe them when they say it's time to move away from mainstream? Which leaves us feeling that nowhere is suitable. How do I get out of this catch-22? How is it fair that they can evade the law on discrimination by simply failing to promote themselves adequately?
It may be that staying where she is will be the best option, but it makes for an awfully long commute and have effect on DS to consider…
Thanks for your thoughts.
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