My son isn't THAT disabled.
In fact I'd go as far as to say the system has been far, far more disabling over time to him than his actual neurological disability iyswim?
I used to think that we were an isolated case, & that perhaps if we weren't of heinz 57 ethnicity, I wasn't a single Mum, we lived in a mansion instead of a tiny ex-council flat etc, lived in a different post code, he wasn't an only child etc, etc that perhaps we might have received better quality more timely support. What a flipping joke! The system is equal opportunity - LOADS of children are equally failed, all across the nation.
I shudder when I think that he would almost certainly have been shunted off to a PRU, & written off totally at just 6 had I not stumbled across this board when I did.
I alternate between rage and despair at how often I see the same crap crop up again and again for so many families - at the moment the number of totally uneccessary exclusions has me hopping mad!
Just how many worried parents are fed complete bollocks about the whole statementing process & then when they do take the fight all the way discover it's written so badly as to be utterly useless or the school just ignore what is supposed to be a legal requirement? Don't even get me started on how I feel about the poor children about to be denied the meagre benefits of SA & SA+!!!!!!!!!
As someone who would still be paying 40% tax had the state honoured it's committments to my family I really get cross at the constant media barrage about benefits scroungers & disabilities.
I need to check myself or the authorities will need all those Olympic security measures just to reign in this angry Mum as she grabs a loud speaker and climbs Big Ben to tell the general public how it really is for us soon! (Don't laugh as I've already given thermometers to caring carrots as visual aids and done a few other naughty things)
That was a rant waiting to happen 