For those that don't know, my 10 yrs DS has had no end of trouble in school since he started there. He has AS and although academically advanced has poor social understanding and integration problems. He became so stressed through behaviours at school, he tried to kill himself.
Everyone here gave fab support at the time and now, due largely to the advice you all gave, things have changed. The GP/Camhs, signed him off until summer hols, for depression, so the truancy officers are not on our backs now.
The Ed Psych has come back with an offer of an appalling school, with low academic levels, an hours trip away, but they have a unit for SEN kids with learning difficulties.(and the unit have staff who could deal with his continence issues).(LEA will pay £30 per day for taxi fare)
Or back into mainstream.
My DS says they have given him a choice between a rock and a hard place, which is, basically, no choice.
The LEA are applying for a place at a communication disorder unit in a mainstream high school for year 7, but we have a year til then.
He is just coming to the end of year 5 but has just been assessed by the home tutor as his maths/ science and IT are year 8 level and his English year 7, so he needs academic stimuli.
As he has auditory processing problems and can't understand what is being said to the class generally (overwhelmed by visual/auditory stimuli) he will be in the same boat again back in mainstream.
Whenever I have been to the school for parents day etc, I have always been bewildered by the lack of work he produces. The other kids have reams of neat work and he is lucky to half a couple of half completed printouts in appalling handwriting. He says he loves to do the work but just cannot concentrate to complete anything.
Since the home tutor has started coming this week the change has been utterly amazing. My DS is managing complex work with ease, doing comprehension on Dickens, Molecular Physics and Geometry etc. He loves his tutor and says he can actually understand what he is saying. He has completed more work, in 3 days than I have seen all term from school. He is happy and polite when the elderly chap turns up.
This is all great, but now DS says he never wants to go back to primary school and wants this retired teacher to come every day instead.
LEA is now pushing for him to go back to mainstream after the hols but as you can imagine, we are reluctant to agree.
What do we do? Will they agree to Home Tutor for year 6?
Does anyone have experience of this?