15 out of 20 children in ds class

[eeliie]

It's a reception class. So there are just 5 children who cannot attend. Is it this bad in your child's school?

But all the time in the world doesn’t help when the child in question has neuro-developmental differences that mean they cannot learn at home. Not that you would know that through a passing acquaintance with my child, but they are there all the same. Which is why I got sucked into this wretched thread in the first place; to remind folks not to assume they know other people’s circumstances. Of course some other posters seem to think even children with SN shouldn’t be in school, but I can’t do much about that.

... And I’m willing to accept that there probably are parents out there who are taking the piss, but due to my own family’s situation I’d prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt when it’s not immediately apparent why their child is in school.

Mrsfrumble Well said 👏

Thanks Teardrop

I should add, because someone will inevitably point it out, that not all children with SN will need to be in school at the moment and many may be thriving at home. Good for them!

I’d love my children to be able to both learn at home. We have the resources; the books and devices. I have the time, a postgraduate degree, experience of working with children and volunteering in classrooms. But it still didn’t work for DS.

I feel desperately sorry for all the children who are struggling at home and I think schools should reopen as soon as possible. Bump teachers up the vaccination list and give them all the PPE they want!

There have always been huge injustices yes, but not a situation where some children are receiving an education from an actual teacher and some are basically getting nothing at all

You clearly don’t have children with SEN, who are excluded from any school provision at all or for whom you have to negotiate every single bit of accommodation or support. Funny how school “injustice” is only an issue when mainstream kids are affected.

@Spikeyball

It's when no mainstream school will take the child and all the special schools are full. Or the child's needs may be seen as being too great for any local school. For my friend the only way past this was to take the local authority to court to force them to provide something. A process that took nearly a year.

This happened to my godson. He was half a term without a school in year 7 until he got a place at the special in the next city. Not even in his city.

58% in our school, 55% in the school over the road. Both primaries. Affluent middle class area, most have one parent who is a teacher, nurse, doctor etc but some are definitely more tenuous links to the definition of key worker.

What really, really irks me is in every single family I know either the mum is homeschooling, or she is a key worker and has to go to work, out of at least 30 families in not a single one is the man having to watch the kids while juggling working from home, has been self employed and is watching that income vanish while they try to grasp fronted adverbials, or has been furloughed to provide childcare etc.

@VikingsandDragons

58% in our school, 55% in the school over the road. Both primaries. Affluent middle class area, most have one parent who is a teacher, nurse, doctor etc but some are definitely more tenuous links to the definition of key worker.

What really, really irks me is in every single family I know either the mum is homeschooling, or she is a key worker and has to go to work, out of at least 30 families in not a single one is the man having to watch the kids while juggling working from home, has been self employed and is watching that income vanish while they try to grasp fronted adverbials, or has been furloughed to provide childcare etc.

I was firm from the start I wouldn't be taking all the sick days with children. My career is not less important. And it is the more secure one, so I wouldn't be doing anything to make my work seem less important that his. We shared maternity leave with our first, and it is dh who is wfh this lockdown and lockdown2.