Home/school books

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DS is pretty much non verbal but can use a little delayed echolalic and learned phrases so home/school communication is all done through this book...... anyhow after attending the worst annual review ever where they basically floored me about how bad my child is (only ever one line wrote in his book and 90% of the time positive)i said im unhappy they didnt tell me earlier and how am i supposed to help ect if i dont know theres a problem.
Anyhow i must have hit a nerve cos since half term communication on there part has got stupid and now daily the book either says unsettled or ok,one frigin word arggg
How the hell can they have my son 6 hours a day and not let me know what hes doing,working on or even how hes behaving.Sorry for ranting but its silly and the more questions i ask them the more they ignore me.

How old is your ds? Does he have a statement? What level of support does he get in the classroom? Sorry...questions questions....

hes got a statement for full time 1 to 1 in an asd resource unit and hes 7,but they would like him to go to special school in september and so they think they can do what ever they want in the meantime.His statement actually says due to xxxxx minimal communication the home/school book should be used effectively so that parents and education providers can be in unison to support xxxxx complex needs.
This was a major flash point at the annual review and so now i think they are just being childish but its really affecting the work i do with my son because hes trying his hardest to communicate what hes doing at school and who with but i dont always understand him and hes getting frustrated.

Right well if he's 1 to 1 them simply writing 'ok' or other utterly useless comments is.not good enough. His 1 to 1 should have time to write more constructive and informative comments and you don't need me to tell you that just because he's going to a different school means they can slack off.

I'd want to know if he is unsettled what caused it? If he worked well what helped this to happen? Am I going off track OP? Sorry. Get very irate at lazy and uncommunicative teachers. Do you write in his book? How much? Do you ask questions in it and if so do they get answered at all?

yes i usually write if hes slept badly or if hes extra anxious ect ,but its as if im writing in invisable ink gggrrrr.
Im trying to keep on good terms with them because they dont know it yet but he aint moving anywhere and will be staying at their school whether they are happy about it or not .
Got yet another meeting with them next week so it looks like we will be going over the same issues yet again,but im a really lovely parent if i do say so myself and this is now getting to me so maybe im just going to have to be firmer.

Yup! But be specific about what you are entitled to (adequate and useful information) and ask for minutes of the meeting if they don't offer it too. Right I'm off to apply to be an agent of the devil OFSTED inspector.

cheers lol