ARP CLASS 1 girl 11 boys

[Jyckin]

Hi I’m new on this website.

Ive 2 autistic children both in specialist settings boy 12 been in since 5 daughter 6 been in 4.
My daughter has just started the new school year in ARP and I am very upset to find out she is now the only girl with 11 boys all with a range of profound special needs.
The only other girl has moved to another town over summer.

I am already in tribunal with LA about school placement for several reasons but this has just tipped me over the edge.

With all the Sen aside a girl of 6 would never be expected, in a main stream, to be in a class of all boys so why is it aloud in special? Or is it?

I’m not sure what I am after on posting but I just wanted to hear people’s opinions.

Would you mind if your daughter was the only girl in a class of 12 and had no other female child interaction for the whole school year? Seriously how would you feel ?

It’s an infant through class age 4-7 and there’s only one class, there’s no moving to another class.

Would this help fight our case at tribunal ?

😩😩 just a gutted mum feeling sorry for my lil girl being alone in a class full of boys.

I have had boy mums say what’s the problem but I am a boy mum and would not expect my boy to be in a class full of girls either and I just think the whole situation is wrong ! 😑

Unfortunately, this isn’t uncommon in ARPs and SS. It does happen in smaller mainstream schools - or the other way round and there is 1 boy and the rest girls.

It isn’t as simple as saying it is always a problem or definitely isn’t. It will depend on DD’s needs, her views (if she is able to communicate them), the other pupils, how much ARP pupils integrate with pupils from the main school, what other options are available, how staff handle things… But it can certainly be part of your argument for tribunal that there isn’t a peer group.

Just so you are aware, most ARPs are actually classed as a mainstream school because most ARPs are not separately registered schools, so most of the time it is the mainstream school named in section I and the ARP detailed in F.