moving to secondary school is already a cliff edge for SEN kids.
Firstly, you've got to find a secondary school that can provide appropriate support. Then you've got to get your kid into it. Then the fight starts.
Whatever support you managed to persuade the primary school to put in place evaporates overnight. Even with EHCP, you have to fight for everything to be put in place anew.
Without the legal documents to support you, you have to prove all over again that your child needs support. Between a "new start", huge pressure to conform (ie, pretend everything is fine, at enormous physical and psychological cost), and large pupil numbers with low engagement time, parents are frequently told there's "no evidence" of the child's needs. Then starts the often years-long evidence gathering process that could be done in a week if staff took parent concerns seriously.
And all this against a backdrop of vastly increased complexity and pressure on the child, from overwhelming crowds, to silent corridors, to busy timetables, to having a dozen teachers to please, to getting detention for forgetting a pen.
Really, it is a testament to the determination (and desperation) of parents that any children get any support at second school.
Jen
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