Ds has dyslexia, processing and handwriting issues. His teachers all acknowledge is he is far from reaching anywhere near his potential because he canot keep up in class. We chose this school because we hoped the small classes would be of benefit.
These things piss me off:
-Ds dropped French as he was struggling with learning both French and Spaninsh from scratch. The 2 free lessons a week were meant to be used to revise spanish but he just sits at the back of the french class daydreaming.
-He hates team sport (possibly mildy dyspraxic) and they do 5 hours a week of it!
-As he is slow to get changed for PE, he now has to get changed alone in the disabled toilet.
-He has remained on the same level/sublevel in English for a whole year yet school havent intervened at all.
-The school day ends at 5 pm with the last hour being unsupervised prep. A total waste of an hour a day for ds who needs direction and supervision.
All things considered, I do wonder why we are paying for ds to feel increasingly stressed and to suffer increasingly low self esteem.
The thing is, he has some good friends there, the teachers are mostly lovely and the school is the only one near us so changing school might mean moving house.
Is it time to change?