My ds. with complex needs now has six TA's supporting him in year 7, having had a 1;1 arrangement which didn't work, I think because TA found it too stressful, and didn't agree with him being in main-stream, (he has MLD and PD) and she said he wasn't accessing curriculum. Senco now completely changed his support, so not only does he have 6 TA's looking after him, they are not curriculum led, so for eg. he has 4 lessons of science and each lesson he has a change of TA. How on earth can this work? There is no continuity. No TA will have an intimate knowledge of my childs diverse needs, training will be a night-mare in my opinion, no TA will have intimate curriculum knowledge either as they are all doing a bit of this and a bit of that. He must loose time as he can't just leave the lesson with his TA and move on to next, as has to wait for TA change.
I was so upset on Friday, my first instinct was to get him out and home-ed. but I know he needs social contact. If I had been told they would arrange support like this I would not have sent him there. We were advised that children with complex needs should have more intimate TA support. He had two TA's at primary and that worked well. I wouldn't mind six TA's so much if they were curriculum led.
I have voiced my concerns and have been told by all give it a go. But I think we didn't hit the deck running in September, there are lots of issues, I don't want to wait another year to see if yet another initiative works, they don't seem to share my view that we haven't got time to faff about.
Really getting me down, not sleeping. I'd appreciate your views.