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Hiya guys
I am seriously considering Legal Action against my son's school, today was the straw that broke my back!
A little background info first, so you can see why I'm so het up.
My son, at birth, suffered from fitting, he has been tested for epilepsy but the results came back inconclusive as he was 6 days old at the time, and was not having a seizure at the time of the test.
I was told that I was to make his schools aware of his problems until he was 12.
When school enrolling started, I duly reported his condition at birth, and that if he suffered any head trauma I was to know at once, and that he was more suseptible to fits than a "normal" child.
When he started in Reception he was bullied by his teacher, he would come home with **** on his stomach from where the kids had kicked him and we would be told "He did it to himself". He was physically pulled to the teachers side and told sit there and be quiet OR ELSE! I complained and it fell on deaf ears, the teacher didnt know anything about it.
My youngest son was 2 weeks old when school rang to say that Eldest son had had "a slight accident and could I come and look at him?"
We arrived and his eyes were rolling in his head, he wanted to go to sleep, he was feeling sick and "the floors moving".
After threatening to have the Police involved, we were told a child was playing with a toy tractor (metal) and had swung it in to the air and caught him in the face with it. Ok sheer accident I can understand that, however no ambulance was called despite there being obviously a very serious problem. He was diagnosed as having "severe concussion and shock". First words from the hopsital, "why didnt the school call 999?"
The next issue came about 4 months later, I got a call saying he had tripped in the playground and torn the sole of his shoe off, so i duly pop to the school and hand over new shoes , I'm halfway home when I'm called to be told, He's thrown up everywhere and is saying his head hurts. I dash back, hes sitting in the office with a lump on his head, a wet paper towel and his eyes rolling. When he fell he headbutted a wooden post. No one told me this when they asked for shoes, and they put him on stage for his xmas play. I bunged him in the car and rushed him to the hospital. Again he had a concussion and shock, and again i was asked, why didnt school call 999, its a head injury?
I then was called to be told, hes hurt himself in the playground, we are worried about his leg. I said Have you called 999? no. its not serious enough to call 999 but we need your permission for him to stay in school. Up i go to a boy with a bruise from his temple to his ear, eyes rolling, and his leg covered in a few sheets of Bounty Kitchen Towel (i could see the elephants on it) sellotape and a loosely bound bandage (we didnt know if he could have plasters). Again he was dashed to the A&E, I'm sure there is a bench dedicated to him in paedeactrics in Barnsley, this time he needed paper stiches, bed rest for 2 days and a week off school!
The most recent injury was, he fell backward off his chair in to the corner of a chest of drawers (at school again) and split his head open. I was out and Dad got the call. When he got to the school, boy had the obligatory piece of blue paper towel to it, blood everywhere and was shaking like a leaf. Dad asked "has 999 been called?" No.
He needed his head glued and 2 days off school. I made a formal complaint about this and was told the School Nurse had said the injuries did not need hospital attention.
Point 1: School do not have a resident school nurse.
Point 2: The school nurse for our area, by her own admission, was in Barnsley (7 miles away) at the time of the incident.
Today, I had the Educational Welfare Officer on my door saying he was having a lot of time off school, I explained it was due to him having accidents at school, and she looked at me, went white and said I shouldnt have come, but improve his attendance.
My questions are:
Does a school have to call an ambulance in the case of a head injury, especially where it is obvious that the chld is concussed?
Do they have the right to refer me to the Educational Welfare if my son is having time off due to accidents at school?
Also, I have asked for a meeting with the Head Mistress, the receptionist (i hate her,.. i hate her) has said it is not appropriate as there is an "investigation going about the cause of the accidents". I know what this means, my son is being tested for dyspraxia.
ATM i am so mad with this situation, I sit in scared my phone will ring and there will be a voice saying hes seriously injured and can i get him to the hospital.
I am seriously considering Legal Action against my son's school, today was the straw that broke my back!
A little background info first, so you can see why I'm so het up.
My son, at birth, suffered from fitting, he has been tested for epilepsy but the results came back inconclusive as he was 6 days old at the time, and was not having a seizure at the time of the test.
I was told that I was to make his schools aware of his problems until he was 12.
When school enrolling started, I duly reported his condition at birth, and that if he suffered any head trauma I was to know at once, and that he was more suseptible to fits than a "normal" child.
When he started in Reception he was bullied by his teacher, he would come home with **** on his stomach from where the kids had kicked him and we would be told "He did it to himself". He was physically pulled to the teachers side and told sit there and be quiet OR ELSE! I complained and it fell on deaf ears, the teacher didnt know anything about it.
My youngest son was 2 weeks old when school rang to say that Eldest son had had "a slight accident and could I come and look at him?"
We arrived and his eyes were rolling in his head, he wanted to go to sleep, he was feeling sick and "the floors moving".
After threatening to have the Police involved, we were told a child was playing with a toy tractor (metal) and had swung it in to the air and caught him in the face with it. Ok sheer accident I can understand that, however no ambulance was called despite there being obviously a very serious problem. He was diagnosed as having "severe concussion and shock". First words from the hopsital, "why didnt the school call 999?"
The next issue came about 4 months later, I got a call saying he had tripped in the playground and torn the sole of his shoe off, so i duly pop to the school and hand over new shoes , I'm halfway home when I'm called to be told, He's thrown up everywhere and is saying his head hurts. I dash back, hes sitting in the office with a lump on his head, a wet paper towel and his eyes rolling. When he fell he headbutted a wooden post. No one told me this when they asked for shoes, and they put him on stage for his xmas play. I bunged him in the car and rushed him to the hospital. Again he had a concussion and shock, and again i was asked, why didnt school call 999, its a head injury?
I then was called to be told, hes hurt himself in the playground, we are worried about his leg. I said Have you called 999? no. its not serious enough to call 999 but we need your permission for him to stay in school. Up i go to a boy with a bruise from his temple to his ear, eyes rolling, and his leg covered in a few sheets of Bounty Kitchen Towel (i could see the elephants on it) sellotape and a loosely bound bandage (we didnt know if he could have plasters). Again he was dashed to the A&E, I'm sure there is a bench dedicated to him in paedeactrics in Barnsley, this time he needed paper stiches, bed rest for 2 days and a week off school!
The most recent injury was, he fell backward off his chair in to the corner of a chest of drawers (at school again) and split his head open. I was out and Dad got the call. When he got to the school, boy had the obligatory piece of blue paper towel to it, blood everywhere and was shaking like a leaf. Dad asked "has 999 been called?" No.
He needed his head glued and 2 days off school. I made a formal complaint about this and was told the School Nurse had said the injuries did not need hospital attention.
Point 1: School do not have a resident school nurse.
Point 2: The school nurse for our area, by her own admission, was in Barnsley (7 miles away) at the time of the incident.
Today, I had the Educational Welfare Officer on my door saying he was having a lot of time off school, I explained it was due to him having accidents at school, and she looked at me, went white and said I shouldnt have come, but improve his attendance.
My questions are:
Does a school have to call an ambulance in the case of a head injury, especially where it is obvious that the chld is concussed?
Do they have the right to refer me to the Educational Welfare if my son is having time off due to accidents at school?
Also, I have asked for a meeting with the Head Mistress, the receptionist (i hate her,.. i hate her) has said it is not appropriate as there is an "investigation going about the cause of the accidents". I know what this means, my son is being tested for dyspraxia.
ATM i am so mad with this situation, I sit in scared my phone will ring and there will be a voice saying hes seriously injured and can i get him to the hospital.
so a good time was had by all
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