I'm looking for advice please.
I posted recently about my 14 year old GS being physically abused by his father. Parents divorced from when GS was one and before GD was born.
All of the right people are involved, and we are waiting for family support officer to be assigned.
The problem is that GS gets a detention most days at school, seemingly for stupid things. School has a tough pupil intake and have adopted a zero tolerance policy.
I don't agree with this, but I bow to their experience and assume they know what they are doing. It isn't working for GS who views it as victimisation and being treated like a child. So I guess he is answering back and doing all the eye rolling and sighing that teenagers do.
He has now disengaged with education completely and the school keep dishing out detentions like smarties, and round and round we go.
He is a lovely boy, not academic, but very empathic and kind, unless in one of his teenage hissy fits.
We aren't sure where to take this with the school, and I have suggested to my DD that she requests a meeting with the head and year head, with me there as support.
I had an impromptu meeting with the year head when she sent GS home to change his trousers. She told me a lie that she didn't know he lived 30 mins walk from school. As safeguarding lead she also new GS was terrified of the possibility of father waiting for him outside school gate.
Basically he hates school, doesn't trust them, and neither do I. Changing schools would not help as uprooting him from his friends would make him worse.
I'm open to any advice.
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