My 9 year old has asd. He is high functioning and attends a (usually fantastic) mainstream primary school. There are only 25 kids in the whole school so he gets loads of one to one time.
My son forms temporary strong attachments to all sorts of objects and we don't stress him out with it as its only for a few days and he moves on.
So we were clearing out his schoolbag of all the bits and Bob's the teachers send back at the end of the year when I came across missing posters and r.i.p pictures for lil timmy the rock.
Lil timmy was a feature in our lives about 2 weeks before school finished and as normal he talked about it for a few days before seeming to forget. What I gather has actually happened is they've made my son take this rock outside and Bury it as if it had died!! I'm absolutely horrified. My son told me he tried to remember where it was so he could dig him up at breaktime but couldn't remember hence the missing poster he made 😢
There was a massive change of teachers at his school so going into next year we have a full new staff to deal with. I cannot understand at all why they would choose to deal with this situation this way. I'm absolutely devastated the idea that my son has been upset like this at school and he is unable to tell me or the teachers how he is feeling.
I feel the need to really have a word with the teachers when he goes back. How would others do this?