Hello, I don’t know anything about Home education so I’d appreciate some advice. My dd is 9 and she’s in Year 4. Her school is very small, only 8 in her year. She has virtually no friends at school. She can maintain friendships outside school but there’s so few children in her Year there’s hardly anyone to be friends with and one, possibly two of the other girls in her year have ASD. ASD isn’t the problem though, my ds aged 13 has ASD but I think dd is simply surrounded but additional needs! She was also assessed for asd but is not. She was such a confident girl before she started school. She was bullied at her first school so I moved her. She was happy at her second school but we had to move because of DHs job so where she is now at her third school where she has been for three years. I’ve put her name on the waiting list for another school. I’ve tried so hard with the current school - to engage them, to talk about dd, emails etc but nothing gets done. The teachers have given out the ‘star’certificate to some children two or three times this year and dd has had it just once. I’m not bothered but dd is. I’ve spoken to the Head and his response was - ‘what do you want me to do? Tear friendships apart?’ He laughed at me. They’re just not interested in her. Other parents have even said how sad dd seems. I know she’s been pinned against a wall but another girl. Another parent told me this, I didn’t hear it from school. I’ve asked School about it but had no response.
Dd is in tears today about the prospect of going back tomorrow after half term. I don’t know what to do, I’m not a teacher and I don’t want dds education to suffer, she’s a bright girl but I really just want her to be happy.