Lizzie

[sildil]

Struggling with Lizzie and school a little at the moment. We had difficulties last week with an intransigent Art teacher and a frantic deadline for entry for Lizzie's Art AS level. For those of you outside the UK, the AS level is a totally spurious, time wasting and pointless exam that is there only to create pressure on kids and teachers and to waste valuable teaching and learning time. However it 'has' to be taken...apparently.

We managed at the last minute to emotionally blackmail the head of Art into allowing Lizzie to submit (at OUR expense, mind) but I am still unhappy with the lack of support for her and the pressure to 'try and do a bit more' which actually is counterproductive.

Anyway, a glimmer of hope on the horizon, I am in touch with an organisation called 'Tymes Trust' (The Young M E Sufferers) who are particularly thorough, knowledgable and helpful regarding educational matters and young people. I already know far, far more than I did yesterday about what the school is obliged to provide and am going into work today armed with most of it.

I don't feel as if we are alone anymore.

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[sildil]

Yes EXACTLY. I appreciate that teachers themselves often don't know all the ins and outs of such things, and that entitlements are a minefield of deadlines/reports/special arrangements/doctors letters etc. BUT we have a Special Educational Needs Officer (SENCO) at the school, and I am POSITIVE that she knows nothing about Lizzie's circumstances, yet on the website I found there is a report of recommendations that you can give to the school SENCO JUST about dealing with ME/CFS sufferers. If the teachers don't know themselves, then why the fuck don't they routinely pass the information on? It should be just part of the standard response.