DS1 is an educational anomaly. I've had a fight on my hands since before he started school. He was always different but very sharp minded. He also has an autism diagnosis.
His first school felt mainstream wasn't right for him special school and life skills should be his root.
His second side-lined him into the corridor with a TA who was lovely, but he ran rings around.
His third school he just fell further and further behind describing a lot of time in the quiet garden and in the corridor.
I managed to get a statement of educational need in Yr4 when I proved his IQ 98th percentile and academic attainment - not really mark making didn't tally.
In school 4 (yr 5) we managed to get a place in an autism provision associated with a mainstream. Amazing teacher and TA team turned our world around and with ongoing support from home he got average SATs results.
School 5 (secondary), again an autism provision associated with mainstream they've worked really hard with him and home, he's sat a full timetable of GCSE subjects in mainstream and he's truly blossomed. He achieved some 9's in his mocks. Nothing below a 7.
I'm a really proud mum, he's worked incredibly hard, so have an incredible team of staff at his school and rather a lot of effort from home with moving homes/areas and endless appointments, applications and form filling in.
The cherry on the cake, that’s made everything worthwhile, he's secured an apprenticeship that starts in September.
So to my AIBU to be fed up that based on all the A level results catastrophe, his teacher’s hard work and predictions plus his mock results, look as though they’ll be discounted and his results based on marking down his predictions from SATS expectations so more likely to get 3s/ 4s and 5s rather than the 7s, 8s and 9s he attained in his mocks.