TA support in mainstream school. Advice needed please.

[supermum98]

My ds. has CP and is statemented for 30hrs. TA support for pd. and moderate learning difficulties. He started mains-stream secondary in September, all has been going fine until his TA started withdrawing him from lessons that he wasn't timetabled to be withdrawn from. He has a reduced curriculum and misses two lessons a day to fit in physio and overlearning, plus other interventions. He has been coming home and having huge angry outbursts about being withdrawn from further lessons, as he feels excluded too much and now says he wants to be with his form full time and ditch all TA support. I have already raised it with the school and asked them to talk to him about it. THey haven't done this yet, but we have a meeting on Thursday to discuss. It is already affecting his relationship with his TA and my worry is that he doesn't understand why he needs TA support and I could see this seriously jeopardizing our decision to put him in a main-stream school ( not that there were suitable special schools in the area).
I will push back on the school about why they needed to pull him out of these extra lessons, which seemed to me for trivial reasons, like it was a supply teacher, or he had missed the previous lesson, or with the case of music, he found the head-phones difficult to use. Can anyone give me advice about how to manage this situation, which I think could reach critical mass this week and I reckon could result in him refusing to go to school?? Has anyone had the same experience?? Cheers

Hi Supermum

I don't have any help to offer really but just wanted to let you know my dh and I have just spent the evening writing an email to send to our dds class teacher on the subject. She is being taken out continually, with another child with SEN but with very low IQ, and forced to do what she calls baby maths.

Same as you ds, she hates being taken out and doesn't understand why she has to do baby stuff which she finds really boring. The TA says she doesn't understand, I ask for them to send home the work she doesn't understand, she finishes it in 5 mins with me. She is very disheartened as you DS is.

We will send the email to the school, they will be their usual defensive selves, she will go back into the classroom for a few lessons. A few weeks later we will find out she is being taken out again. AHHHHHH.

I too would love to hear any advice from others who have been in similar situations.

Supermum I will let you know what the schools response is when I have it though.

this is something that my own son moans at from time to time mainly because he doesnt want to be treated different from the other kids.

my guess is they are pulling him out of lessons to do physio and renforcing basics in line with your childs statement.is it possible that you could take over the physio at home, take a good look at your childs statement then arrange a meeting with the school with your son present so you can go through his concerns.