Question for teachers/school leaders

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If the LA were to place a child in your school but outsource the academics to tutors teaching 1 to 1 and paying £40k pa for the privilege what problems do you foresee? Should add that the tutors would be teaching at a level above what the school generally caters for so tutors teaching GCSE's to one child in a school that does not have a GCSE curricculum.

Hmm.
Ok, a bit out there, but have you considered a home education childminder, and doing it yourself? I have knownof a family doing that when they couldn't get the provision they wanted.

She was at mainstream secondary and had a breakdown and she is too fragile to go back to her school or any mainstream secondary tbh.

If I lose at Tribunal then I will be forced to home ed rather than the LA option but I believe it's an inferior choice (for me and dd) and not right for dd either.

Home ed groups can be very supportive and are usually (unfortunately) well populated with ASD young people, and so often have socials and group study sessions that are well.suited.
Might actually not be such a bad option?

So really what they are offering you is full-time home tuition based on a school site but not being part of Y11? Do you think there is a chance that if she settles into it she might make a few friends and possibly spend more time in some groups she felt secure in?

I think she will find making friends with young people in the main school really difficult. She doesn't really possess the skills to adapt her conversations and interests to cater for children without the same sort of levels of ability. Some of it is the autism, some of it is she has a high IQ 130 plus and some of it is that she has been surrounded by adults as her siblings are much older than her and so tends to gravitate to those equally if not more able than she is because it is easier.
Even such things as music (she plays piano) or the life skills programmes mentioned shopping (where dd manages her own account and shops online independently) will be so far below her ability. I think it will be difficult to find a common ground. They said there is a lot of interest in pokemon (ASD common interest I think they believe) dd not interested in Pokemon but has been teaching herself Japanese whilst out of school. She will feel a bigger freak than she does already I think.