I wonder if anyone has any advice about how to deal with the day. Our LA sends the details by Email at midnight on 1st March. I'm really in a quandary about when to tell
DS. Do I tell him in the morning before school and risk a meltdown if we haven't got the one he wants to go to, or do I wait until he comes home after school and deal with it over the weekend. It just seems to me that it is going to be a lot for him to cope with on a normal school day. Nearly all of his class are going to the catchment school, whereas we have put down three schools outside our catchment area, on the advice of a friend of mine who works in educational support who told me not to even think about sending him to the catchment school. This means we have no idea which school we are going to get. We chose three schools citing medical reasons for our choice as these schools have good experience of children with Aspergers. I have met the SENCO's from all three schools and we are as happy as we can be with all three at this stage. So unless we get a school we haven't listed we won't look to appeal. DS has visited all three schools and liked one a lot more than the other two. This school is the most popular in our area and the one we have the least hope of, even though we put it as first choice. We have been honest with him about the chances of going there all the way along, but I fear a bad reaction if we don't get him in.