AIBU to expect some SEN provision despite the pandemic?

[ACupOfTeaSolvesEverything]

Ok before you shoot me down right away, I know teachers are up against it at the moment and school life has radically transformed since this time last year.

However all SEN support has been withdrawn at my son’s school unless the child has an EHCP, those kids are getting partial support.

The reality for my child is that he gets home and completely melts down as he has spent the entire day just coping. This school work is suffering, his mental health is suffering. I feel like I’m sending a lamb to the slaughter every day.

Now I know his small group sessions can’t go ahead, I know he can’t get up and be sent on errands to add movement to his day, I know he can’t use the play equipment at lunch to get much needed sensory input.

Fine.

But I’m fighting school for his wobble cushion which he has used for the last 3 years, it lives in school, it’s in his classroom but the teacher won’t give it to him.
Fiddle toys were banned because other children might touch them - DS took some anyway and keeps them in his tray when he is not using them, no one touches them.
He has been sat on the back row because he’s quiet and no trouble but he has hearing issues and actually can’t hear the teacher so relies on the child next to him. School think this is acceptable.

AIBU to expect basic, reasonable accommodations in a pandemic? A wobble cushion and being sat somewhere he can hear? I’m not asking for the moon on a bloody stick! Or am I?

Just to add, my child who is on the SEN register with no EHCP is also still getting all the usual support. Still gets small group intervention, the year group is a bubble so it’s just with kids in the same year group. Own work station, and we were invited into school before it officially reopened so all the new layout could be explained and made familiar. Movement breaks are still happening in school. Play therapist is still seeing kids and I think all the other therapies are happening. This is a huge mainstream school and was in Tier 2 before lockdown.

And it all seems to be happening safely as there haven’t been mass year groups being sent home.

@ACupOfTeaSolvesEverything another teacher here. You definitely need to escalate this. We are still making all necessary adjustments for our kids with SEN. No reason at all not have his fiddle toys or his cushion. And all interventions can be done in year group bubbles.

I truly don’t understand teachers like your son’s. Not only is he massively impacting your child but also making his own life harder. I find it baffling.

Good luck. I hope your head is receptive.

I agree with the advice of others.....I'd be making a big old complaint. The teacher clearly is not meeting the needs of your child and the head needs making aware of the situation.