NO WAY OFSTED!!!!!

[dmo]

i look after a 8yr old boy with ADHD and he has melt downs loads in the day

anyway OFSTED are coming to his school tomorrow and class teacher came out today at the end of school to ask if there is any possibilty that i or his parents can keep him off school tomorrow

That is dreadful

Terrible on their part

Inclusion is great isn't it!

I'd tell the school you refuse to raise with the parents the matter of an unorthodox day off unless you have the request in writing from the school (on letterhead paper or auditable email). Without that, he will attend as normal.

If the child is severe enough for them to not want him there when the inspector visits, then surely he should have a TA. So he should be there, so that the inspector can see that the school needs additional funding for children with SEN.

he does have his own TA

as an ex teacher I can tell you this happens all the time!! In the good old says when you got a fair warning they were coming the crap staff and the difficult kids were packed off on residential trips to get them out of the way!!

that is a bloody disgrace. i agrre, ask for it in writing then take it straight to ofsted.

Thing is nannynick OFSTED won't come to the conclusion that the school needs more SEN funding, if the boy has a melt-down and disrupts the lesson OFSTED will conclude the lesson is 'unsatisfactory' and the school could fail. One lesson deemed unsatisfactory in an inspection at my old school was judged to be so because 2 children out of 25 didn't make progress, all 25 behaved beautifully, but 2 didn't do much!
Awful they are asking the mum to keep this boy off, but I can understand why, OFSTED are bastards very unforgiving.

What have you said to them, or to the parents?

And are they planning to pay you?

Sadly I have to agree with squiby, I have seen inconvenient staff and students not in when Ofstead visit.

I know a child where they always found a reason to exclude him when ofsted were due.

I'd be tempted to tell OFSTED I was asked to keep him home.

Given how OFSTED are, I can understand it. Not nice, but the school is fighting to get a good grade. It's a game, and they are trying to play it. If you're going to get offended, get offended at the way OFSTED does it's gradings, not at the school.

happens all the time with hmi too

well child gone in as i cant care for him all day as i go to toddler groups etc with younger children and parents at work

It's a sorry state of education when the thinks it's OFSTED grade is more important than the welfare (or, perish the thought, education) of the student. OSTED and the school both deserve some blame here in my opinion.

'tis also a sorry state of education when a grown woman can't remember the difference between it's and its.

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It's a sorry state of education when the school thinks its OFSTED grade...

awful, sad, and what on earth must the parents feel in all this..

Why the hell should YOU have him? OFSTED inspects us childminders who have difficult children such as the lad you mind.

I would tell OFSTED about the situation, its not fair to grade the school down just because it has a child with ADHD, he has as much right to be there as anyone else. This should never have crossed the school's minds - take a child out because he is likely to disrupt - absolute disgrace.

Spot the 'deliberate' mistake.

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It's a sorry state of education when the > school thinks its OFSTED grade...

It's pretty tragic (in a funny way) when a pedant makes mistakes when correcting someone else!!

THis is disgraceful, the school should have their own strategies for dealing with this such as red card sent to the head if the Class teacher needs assistance. to pretend he doesn't exist is abhorrant!

The time for hiding children with special needs away has passed, hasn't it? I agree with mum2luke - an absolute disgrace.