I'm preparing to change Madd's school if we have to.
I love the school she's at, it's a small community and small school. It's a wonderful school if you have a neurotypical child.
However....
There's one child that Madd can't sit with or work with. They can't even be in the same group. They stir each other, and punches end up getting thrown. The regular teacher knows this. But it seems like, although the message is being passed on to her other teachers, they're not heeding the warning. It's not really a warning, it's more like a huge red neon sign that's flashing ***DANGER***. Madd's jumper got cut, and punches got thrown between the two of them. She also gets very stressed when she's made to work with him. We finally got her to the point where she's able to verbalise to the teacher that she can't work with him, but the teacher still said that she had to. That is a point that will be made at our meeting with the school this afternoon.
Now I thought Ash was on board with moving her schools if we absolutely had to.
Now this morning we get into a massive argument over that... he threw up the line that "No matter what, I don't think she should move schools."
Hang on there... earlier this week you were saying that you were on board with this if it had to happen. Now you're saying it doesn't?
So I try for further clarification.
Apparently if the school states that there's nothing more they can do to make her school life easier, and they state that they'll keep treating Madd's "defiance" (it's her way of saying she's stressed about something, and you need to ask her what's wrong to get it out of her) as bad behaviour and punishing her, THEN we can move her schools.
I'm not talking about moving her schools now. I'm not even talking about it being a definite.
I'm just asking that we keep the possibility open if we believe it's in her best interests, and maybe another school will handle her issues in a different way - in the way that works.
But for now, it's a subject that we just cannot agree on.
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