Taking ds to school late

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DS has respiratory problems and about twice a year wakes up really wheezy and needs to do a half hour treatment to help him breathe more easily. When this happens I take him into school an hour late which has never been a problem. This morning though he was refused entry until 10.30 - new rule which was sent out yesterday and which I subsequentlyfound in the bottom of ds's bag. I had no one to leave ds with and had to take him into work. I work at university and we had exams which couldn't go ahead without me as we were already at our minimum limit of invigilators. Aibu to find the school's new rule a right pita? Do other schools do this? I can understand penalizing recurrent lateness but this just seems to be designed to make life harder for parents with children with medical needs.

I would be absolutely fuming. I would not accept this at all. Massively discriminatory and completely ridiculous.

YANBU

You’re not late because you overslept or were disorganised. You’re late because of a medical condition that requires time to be spent treating it a couple of times a year. IMO that is discrimination to not make a reasonable adjustment due to your DS’s condition by allowing him to come in as soon as he’s able to. I would definitely raise it with the school. I appreciate they want to stop the habitual lateness but this is not that!

I'd say ok, kiss him goodbye and leave him in the office to wait out out

I did actually suggest that and she (the deputy head) said she would call the police! Yes, things got a bit heated.

The conversation with the police would have been interesting:
Policeman: 'is this child on your roll'
Head: 'yes'
Policeman: 'is the school in session'
Head: yes
Policeman: wtf

I would hope the police would’ve told her to stop wasting their time!

“This child is supposed to be in your school, he was dropped off by his parent during school hours. The job of the police is to deal with criminals, not to enforce your petty and arbitrary school rules. Get the kid in class and let us get back to work!”

The deputy head sounds like a moron. I would look up the complaints procedure and start going through the early stages and just continue until I'm satisfied. I would sympathise with a school trying to stamp out recurrent lateness but this is just absurd.

If it wasn’t for putting a child in the middle I would have been tempted to say “ok tell them to get me on my mobile” and left

I've always understood that the disability discrimination act required disabled people not to be treated "less favourably". This means that they are indeed in contravention of the act

Sorry, not the Disability discrimination act, but the equality act..

I’d be looking for another school.

Unfortunately people suggesting Governors, SEND etc, as you aren’t in the UK we don’t know what procedures you have to support you.

Ces6 The schools policies should be on their website so I'd check them as well prior to speaking to the school.

quizqueen my brother in law is dyslexic and therefore struggles with certain words at times. It doesn't stop him being a great teacher.