Hi everyone, I'm new, don't have all the acronyms yet, sorry if this gets long winded! :)
My son is 6 and had ASD. He goes to the local mainstream primary school in our village. He doesn't offer up much info about school when asked but when he tells us things spontaneously, usually he's pretty accurate.
Having dinner one Friday evening about 3 weeks into new term (Sept '10) he told me that his LS had smacked him.......Knowing that if I asked lots of questions he would then start to get confused, I kept things simple and in as calm a way as possible asked him "why?". He said " because she was cross up to me".When I got up from the table he demonstrated on the back of my leg how she had smacked him. Having given it much thoughtand discussion with family I went to speak to the Head Teacher about it on the Tuesday......All swept under the carpet, that wouldn't happen, he probably just misinterpreted something, blah, blah, blah. The teacher was instructed to call me to clear the air, honestly when I came off the phone my gut told me that something had happened. No more said about the matter.
He has just recovered from an illness that kept him off school for nearly 3 weeks, on his return to school he was told he would have to attend LS to catch up work, which is fair enough, but he is terrified. His vocal and motor ticks became almost out of control and in his words he said he was frightened of this woman. We met her on the way into school one morning last week and he hid so she wouldn't see him!
I called the school before half term and told them I didn't want them to force him into her class or to be with her if he didn't want to....I have now been summoned to see Head Teacher tomorrow morning. Does anyone know if I have the right as a parent to say that I don't want him with her? How should I deal with the Head Teacher if she wants to force the issue?