I made the mistake of going on Facebook this morning. I was feeling quite positive. A prospective school for dd2 has called and asked us to come in next week. It’s a specialist asd setting. We’ve hit the beach with dog the last 2 evenings.
One of the local Facebook pages had pictures of the beach yesterday evening. All taken with a telephoto lens, compressing perspective and making people appear closer than they are. There’s even a shot of the queue outside the chippy. Dementors are out in force, fuckwits are killing us all, we need to lock back down, bring in the army, blah blah blah and bingo card filled in 20 seconds.
Except there were few cars, not many on the beach, we managed to stay well away from anyone. It was all very civilised, people smiling and generally being positive. And the chippy they pictured was actually shut. So no queue. People are being manipulated and lied to. Pointing this out gets you a load of abuse and blocked.
The local council are refusing to open country and woodland parks, car parks and every single bit of green space they closed weeks ago. Needless to say they are hero’s to dementors and they seem to be playing to them as they make the most noise. And we can’t get any answers from them with regard to dd2s education. The school are wanting to move things forward but the LA are not. There are no EHCP panels running. No one we can talk to. At the moment she has no provision. Should have been taking GCSEs this year but hadn’t had a place anywhere since January. Not one person has checked on her wellbeing at all. So fucked off with the lies, manipulation and political points scoring which seems to be going on round here currently.