OK I know this is the SN topic but honest it is related. I also want to ask here as some of you know some of our story and it is really relevant to this.
DD (Y3) just come home from school with the parents evening letter. I really don't want to go and just need a bit of reassurance I'm doing the right thing.
She goes to the school DS was recently permanently excluded from for reasons relating to his AS. Our appeals have been turned down and no care has been given to DS's or DD's feelings in this. No staff have bothered to see if we or the children are ok. I currently don't even go onto the school site with DD but drop and pick her up at the gate partly to keep away from the comments/looks from parents and the staff (who incidentally I used to work with) blanking me or looking smug or even worse pitying and patronising and because someone has been reporting back to the Head things I have said privately to other parents. It makes me feel physically ill if I have to go onto the site at all.
DH has just started a new job 200 miles away and is away during the week so I would have to go on my own with both kids in tow as have no childcare in the evenings. We are moving to be with DH in the summer anyway so am not massively bothered what the school think about DD as I know she is doing well at school academically and socially.
I'm not a bad parent to not go this time am I? I have been to every single other one she has had and been really involved up until now. I really can't face it, can't face going into school, would have to leave DS in the car outside (bearing in mind he loathes the place), and just don't actually give a rats ass what they think about DD as I wouldn't trust them to sit the right eway round on a toilet after our recent dealings, and to be honest the thought of it makes me want to heave. I am ok to not go aren't I?