Dd is in Year 9 at school. Firstly dd has dyslexia and according to her Ed Psych she has the worst working term memory he's ever seen in a kid. So she struggles with distractions, etc perhaps more than usual.
Anyway there is a girl in her form who obviously has problems. I am sympathetic to the fact that this girl has difficulties. No idea what exactly they are but the girl apparantly breaks down kicking and screaming and throwing herself on the floor a few times a day. The teachers all turn a blind eye to her behaviour and dd says that all the other kids have commented that if they did what X does they'd be in isolation. Dd says that in music lessons which is what their HoY teaches this girl is often screaming, swearing and threatening other kids and HoY does bugger all. Some boy in the class told X that the game she was playing on her dsi looked good the other day and X then threw her dsi at the wall, screaming at the boy not to talk to her and then collapses in the floor screaming and thrashing about.
She seems to have an obsession with dd and insists on sitting next to her in every lesson. Any teacher who has tried to say to X no I want you to sit over there has been met with a tantrum of epic proportions and has backed down.
So dd sits next to her in every non streamed subject, drama, music, ict, art, etc.....and also maths. Dd says she talks non stop, nothing to do with the lesson. And if she feels dd is ignoring her/trying to concentrate on the lesson she has a melt down.
This has been going on for a few months and to be honest I thought sweat it out till the end of Year 9 and then in sept they won't be in any lessons together. But have only just realised they're in the same maths group.
Would it be reasonable to tell the school I don't want dd sitting next to this girl in maths as she's finding it too disruptive? It's the one subject she really struggles with. Dd says that she's scared of this girl.