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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 651760" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, right now I am dealing with a school - sound familiar, anyone - that doesn't seem to get special needs, despite all the nice words spoken by the staff... J has been put on a part-time schedule, slowly increasing hours each week - he has been at this school for eight weeks and is still only there for part of the day, this week leaving at 12.30 (even though last week the head said he would be staying until 1...). This means he has to go right after lunch and cannot play with the others in play time. Today he had to be dragged out of the school field where he was running around with a group of boys, seemingly having great fun. Of course he asks "Why do I have to go?", "Why can't I stay like all the others?" and I really don't know what to tell him. I don't agree with this part-time thing at all, which seems to have more to do with funding (for a one to one assistant) than anything else. Then later in the afternoon he had a huge, ugly meltdown like he hasn't had for ages, and I know it is all connected to the anger, frustration and rejection he feels. I got really cross at his rudeness, defiance and hostility in ways I regret and the whole thing collapses... What the school is doing feels cruel and punitive and they have NO idea of how it impacts on a special needs child... this must be so familiar to all here. Where is the place that understands and supports??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 651760, member: 11227"] Well, right now I am dealing with a school - sound familiar, anyone - that doesn't seem to get special needs, despite all the nice words spoken by the staff... J has been put on a part-time schedule, slowly increasing hours each week - he has been at this school for eight weeks and is still only there for part of the day, this week leaving at 12.30 (even though last week the head said he would be staying until 1...). This means he has to go right after lunch and cannot play with the others in play time. Today he had to be dragged out of the school field where he was running around with a group of boys, seemingly having great fun. Of course he asks "Why do I have to go?", "Why can't I stay like all the others?" and I really don't know what to tell him. I don't agree with this part-time thing at all, which seems to have more to do with funding (for a one to one assistant) than anything else. Then later in the afternoon he had a huge, ugly meltdown like he hasn't had for ages, and I know it is all connected to the anger, frustration and rejection he feels. I got really cross at his rudeness, defiance and hostility in ways I regret and the whole thing collapses... What the school is doing feels cruel and punitive and they have NO idea of how it impacts on a special needs child... this must be so familiar to all here. Where is the place that understands and supports?? [/QUOTE]
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