Having to deal with the LEA has been the hardest,most stressful part about raising children

[Winterflowers6]

I have my son's EHCP annual review this week ,..I'm on the maximum dose of propropnal ( anxiety medication) to try to keep calm.
But every year it's a fight to keep,the small amount of provision he has .
I asked for the bare minimum,.just so he is not disadvantaged,and has the same opportunities to sit a handful of GCSEs ,like any any other child
To get this ,I had to go to tribunal
When you have a child / children with SEN , sometimes asking for normal is like asking for the moon

Be so glad when he's done with education

Completely agree, no other words but you have my sympathy

Thankyou
It's transition year for him
So I know from past experience the LEA will try to remove the education that is working well ,to get him in a local school for 6 th form .
I'm sick of the fight

I hope you've managed to sleep by now.
Hang on in there.
It shouldn't be this way and some LEA's are just the ministry for disinformation and dirty tricks dept, operating in ways that the average parent isn't going to believe, and hiding behind gatekeeping money 'for those with greater need.'
If that's what they where genuinely doing it would be different, but all those involved, know it isn't.
Never forget judicial review exists for a reason and it does make them think a little harder.
There's a small army of parents, mainly mother's, who've trodden these paths into hard ground, and I used to mentally take them with me into meetings and court appearances. It helped.

There's also something called 'radical acceptance.' I didn't actually follow it properly, as it turned out I'd developed enough of the important bits of it, but just knowing the basic ideas behind it and that it existed and was a thing, helped me quite a bit, but others use it fully as a way of supporting themselves through the stress being forced to fight, creates.

Thankyou for your message @Elleherd ..much appreciated
I'm frequently up worrying.
This is my second child with an EHCP ,and stress
The other two sailed through school .
Major extremes in stress levels .
4 years I had to home educated him ( on the quiet ) while I fought the lea at tribunal..had they of known I was doing work at home with him ,they would of put I was home educating him ,and washed their hands of him..they provided nothing for 4 years ,and expected me to sit back and let him get further and further behind.
Absolute madness