This. My daughters are in a lovely village school, with smallish classes, great facilities, fantastic teachers. But a child in my oldest class hit her or smashed her head into a table most days of year 2. And the teachers couldn't do anything as the child had SEN, and 'couldn't control her behaviour'. Outside a school this would be assault, and my daughter had to sit in a room every day knowing she would likely be attacked. Imagine the damage that does, the level of fear she was carrying, holding onto.
Until enough was enough, and I removed her and kept her home until this child was moved. But not every parent could do that, i used my annual leave. But teachers are working in a system where they can't do their job for fear of being labelled 'discriminatory'. Where children are being failed by a system where a few disruptive children are allowed to damage the learning of, and hurt the rest of their class, in the name of "inclusion'.
And before anyone comes for me, this is not an attack on the rights of children with SEN. But my daughter also has rights, the right to learn effectively. The right to feel safe in her classroom. The right to not come home bruised and crying. The teachers also have the right to be respected, rather than attacked.
I work in the NHS but the principle is the same. My pay is decent, my workload is ok, my colleagues are great, I love my profession. But the utter contempt with which some patients treat me just destroys you. And it's my family who suffer when I come home sad, angry, frustrates at another day of people treating me like sh*t.