Irvine if we could have just had a break from the homework then I might have stood a chance at teaching him something useful.
You have to take on board that he could not read or write so every evening we would spend hours trying to write essays or sentences. Hours of him painstakingly writing out words he couldn't read. Crying with frustration. I sat with him every night for at least 2-3 hours, I have another dd who equally needed help. Homework in our house left everyone exhausted and emotional.
I did ask if he could do something more appropriate so he could at least try to catch up but apparently that was not on the NC in that particular year.
We tried not doing the homework but he was kept in everyday to complete the homework. So he spent every break and lunchtime staring at a piece of paper.
I should point out that from the September to the week before the half term in February my ds had not actually attended class.
I was dropping him off at school and he was going in the door but the teacher would make him sit in the corridor all day. Things came to ahead when he contracted viral pneumonia and was off school. On his return the doctor had told me that whilst he was no longer infectious he would still have a cough for about 6 weeks. So I armed him with tissues and told both the teacher and TA about his cough. That was on the Monday.
On the Tuesday he did not want to go in, but he eventually went in.
On Wednesday he had a complete meltdown in the car just as a girl from his class was going past. She made a slight quip and them told me what had been going on in class. Apparently he had never been in class for a whole session since September. The latest reason for throwing him out of class was as soon as he coughed he was out of the door.
I asked around the playground and it was confirmed to me that he wasn't in class for a lot of the days. The TA also confirmed what had been happening. That was when I went into the HM office and made my complaint. I later found out some incidents that had been reported. this teacher had stopped the TA from helping a girl who had a bad nosebleed so she bled all over the place. Another girl dropped her pencil just as she was about to start writing in class then was told she couldn't pick it up, then got screamed at by this teacher because she had done no classwork. This was also the teacher who when I got my ds's spellings and I realised he had been given the wrong sheet. I went back into the classroom holding the sheet and before I got a few words out of my mouth she flew at me in a complete rage that I was questioning her and he would do the homework there was no excuse. The tirade lasted several minutes and there was no breathing space for me to jump in to say that I needed the sheet that was for his table not the top tables spelling.
As it happens I was not the only one who celebrated this woman's departure.