Hi all,
Im new to this site, I have a 11 year old son recently diagnoised with ASD. My son goes to a mainstream school he has a statement and has 2 support workers, I have been told he can not go on school trips unless accompanied by a parent as they class him as a risk! (not sure if this legal or not). The last trip i agreed to go but the day before the outing he was excluded for an outburst (which in my view could have been prevented as he asked his teacher for help with work and her answer was if you are not going to do what you are told leave the classroom!) in which he threw a board rubber in her direction but not at her. This he was excluded for 2 days. The school says they need to take 2 members of staff for him but could only afford to take 1, although he has 2 support workers and another staff member offered to go who my son gets on with and the head said no.
In my opinion they exluded him to cover themselves as they did not want to take him, because recently he threw a knife and fork at his teacher and these hit her and they rang me to go to the school to speak to him as they didnt want to go down the exclusion route (which i would have thought they would have through severity of incident).
