Restoring my soul.

ME!  No matter what I do, say, threaten, coerce, yell, scream, lose my shit, I cannot, I am not able to get my youngest child to go to school.

Yes he is on the spectrum – High functioning Austistic with Anxiety disorder, depression and school refusal disorder.  He is intelligent, he is capable.  He sees no value in an education curriculum that does not allow him to set his own pathway.  He hates school, he is bored with the subject matter, some of his teachers are of the “old school” do as I say brigade and hold not stock in ASD diagnosis and make zero allowance for his short falls in response times to requests.

This term is two weeks old and he has been to school for 3 full days.  This week he has slept through most of the morning into the afternoon.  Of course this means he cannot sleep at night time.

The blame for this lands on me, as far as the school is concerned it is my job to get him there.  It’s there job to make him want to come back and engage.Whilst he isn’t there he isn’t their problem. out of sight out of mind.  I am at my wits end and I have no way of fixing things.

If anyone has any effective advice I would be grateful.