DD 5 goes to a mainstream school, she has dx social communication disorder and speech and lang developmental delay. They are having a trip to Whipsnade zoo, which dd cannot go to, we were given the choice to acompany her but we are not able to do that. We are fine with that as she would find it all too overwhelming and would not enjoy being with 50+ children, and would actually prefer it going into school which she would enjoy more. We will take her another time.
Anyway there is a boy in dd class who has ASD and his mother was told by the HT that he could not go on the trip, no option for his parents to accompan him, his parents have also been told that he cannot go into school either and that he has to stay at home,
. This cannot be right, he has a legal right to go to school, I have told his mum to contact her LEA as its unacceptable and discriminatory. He has a TA as like dd he is statemented, I have heard from a friend who works within the school that she is being used to help the other children on the trip. This cant be right, that is his TA for him. All the mother was told that her ds could not go into school, if he did we would all regret it 