Well here I am again... Ds in GCSE year refusing to attend. I've been here before, it's been ongoing for two years, every (and I mean every) morning I'm on tenter hooks, cojoling, encouraging, forcing, demanding, whatever it takes to get him there. Sometimes we succeed and about one or two days a week we don't.
I've been to meetings where I'm now at the stage where if he is not in school I am fined. I have been honest with the school but now he says he's ill ( feigning illnes) and I can't afford to be fined.
He has no ambition to do any job, or go to college. He won't see a Doctor, he says there is nothing wrong, no bullying, he is happy, just hates school. No amount of threats, taking things away, incentives for attending makes a difference, his answer is - I don't care Mum.
A mentor is talking to him at school but as far as I can gather he is being very brusque with him, brushing it off as a waste of time.
I'm so stressed about this, I'm worried about his future ( never mind exam results) just what is he going to do, and the fact that I will get a criminal record for not getting him there! I'm a LP and sole bread winner. This is hard.