Break Time - Advice or help please?

[Deemented]

Manshapes son has aspergers, but functions fairly well and has just started at secondary school - he's 11. His school has a SEN class which he's just been transferred into as he wasn't coping with the class they'd put him in.

The problem is this - at break time and lunch time he wants to go outside to play football ect, but the older boys pick on him. The school say, to stop this happening he has to stay inside in the classroom that the school has put aside for all the other SEN kids, and not go outside. At all. Their stance is that if he chooses to go outside then they cannot be held responsible for what happens in the playground, but if he stays inside, with the other SEN children, then he will be safe.

Oh, and they also say that 'There is no problem with bullying in our school' - yet on the first day of term, two year 7's were thrown down a bank leading to the playing fields, and one of them ended up with a broken arm.

Surely the school aren't allowed to do this? To stop children playing outside so they don't get bullied?

Manshape has an appointment to speak to the head after half term, but he is very very angry.

Anyone know where we'd even start to fight this?

They have to make reasonable adjustments. Also they are en loco parentis so school is responsible for their safety at break time. They are isolating the SN children from their peers by keeping them in. A school that says there is no bullying is talking bollocks - all schools will have bullying to some extent but some handle it better than others.

I would approach the school to discuss it again as he can't never go outside again! They also need to do something about the bullies . . . and yes they have them!

Ask the Senco if he or she considers this good practice. There will always be those nasty kids who pick on others but this kind of bullying is totally unacceptable.

You need to make some noise about this. It is discrimination of sorts. ALL kids should have access to outside play IF THEY SO WISH. They should be safe and free from harm, mental and physical.

It's not good enough. Shame them into action.

I haven't had secondary experience but at primary my DS (Aspergers) was allowed to have his break at a slightly different time and choose a couple of friends to go out with him. Physical exercise is so important for keeping control of anger and frustration at school, IMO, and would be well worth considering it as part of his education instead of the easy option of insisting all SEN children stay inside.

Deemented? What happened with this? I'm interested to know.

Thanks

I know how you fee,
the kids pick on my lad, yes my lad knows how to handle himself, but it doesnt give them a right to touch him.

my lad gets the blame for starting fights when he hasnt started them, as i have 3 witnesses, my 3 other kids seen it,

this school said there was no bullying but a couple of years ago a black girl had to leave the school becuase some kids were bullying her, but the schoo would do anything, so the mum had no option but to take her out of there, she was a friend of my other lad who at the school.

yes becayse my son as special needs and can be aggressive they used to keep him in a lunch times and break time, they even asked me if i could pick him up at lunch, and you know what i said??
NO
bcause its not going to solve the problems, ]
if e thinks i am going to pick him up for being naughty, he will be more bad on purpose to get the school to call me to pick him,
plus its just a cop out because they cant be bothered,

Oh and your school said its not their responsibility what happens outside
I WOULDNT TAKE THAT,
while your kid is at the school hes their responsability in and outside, its like they are saying its ok for the kids to throw him around and its nothing to do with them.

i hope your son is ok aww