Son has had his class changed suddenly

[Sunshineandalltherainbows]

So I had an email from school saying that from the 8th March they were adding another class to the year group with catch up funding. They have picked 4 children from each current class and put them into aa new class. He is one of the 4 that has been chosen. He's autistic and has been moved without any friends. He only has 3 friends and find it very difficult to make new friends and change is really tricky for him. He has locked himself in his room sobbing and has destroyed the house completely. He is saying he won't go to school and I can't force him to. I'm so worried. I'm also unsure why they are making this change the first week back after lockdown. I'm so worried.

I can’t imagine a school making up a class by random... we spend about month putting classes together, thinking about which kids mix well, which to avoid putting together etc. There’s absolutely no way this would be done by random, and if so I would be moving my kid straight out this school!

Anita, Anita Anita, I'm embarrassed for you
Educate yourself
I am in agreement that this would not have been a random decision, and I strongly suspect you are correct about the allocation of the TA
There are times that parents have to suck it up, this isn't one of them

So OP was it sorted today?

@MrMucker

So you are fully aware of your child's reaction to change?

So you contacted the school to request that the change not happen?
and you don't yet know the answer, but it sounds from what they sad as if it is ok for your child to not move.
And your child has smashed up the place and locked himself in his room as he cannot handle the prospect of change?

That's completely your fault. You said it was in an email to you. So why tell your child about it even though you knew you had the option of contacting the school to query it first?

And then post on hereabout how much the school have upset him?!

Calm yourself down.

Do you feel better now after attacking OP?

I am glad you told him. I need time to digest information and get over the initial shock to be able to then think clearly.

I am a teacher and have picked out names of students who haven’t engaged well in lockdown and need some extra support to catch up. He could be in this extra support class either because he didn’t engage well or just because of his autism they feel it would benefit from them.
It could also be that the remaining students are the ones that need the support to catch up and the new groups are the ones that did really well and will be pushed on instead of being held back by the others.
I would be very surprised if it was done at random. But they may have done so just to reduce class sizes.

Have you stored this yet?