Your opinion on school outings

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Hi all. My son’s class is out on a 3 day

overnight trip to 2 local villages and a park area. He didn’t want to sleep over which

is fair enough. However, today, I

was helping chaperone his class (a boy needed help due to a bad heart so I

pushed him in a wheelchair), (my son is in main stream school and he is 9). I watched my son be with me and have a

lovely day with me and this other boy because it was only 3 of us. Then, when the group got back with us,

he just didn’t mix and played on the perimeter of the group talking to himself. Of

course, this upsets me. Other

parents are there and they have the “normal” kids in the

class.

I think his teacher was

disappointed that he wasn’t going on the nightwalk later tonight. My son just doesn’t like groups or

was it a bad factor that I was around also? His behaviour is classic autistic stuff

I have seen with other kids on the spectrum. Should a school want to make AS kids be

in a group????

I just want to forget the whole

outing to be honest. What do you think? Is it a better thing to make him

go???? A parent said he did well on

the Hampton

Court trip

so maybe it’s my being there that is too disruptive….. In any case, it breaks my heart to

see him not engage with anyone……

Patty

UK