Desperately needing help: my school kicked me out

My school kicked me out due to my absence caused by illness and I need urgent advice.

I have been at my current school since year 7 in 2007 and started my AS last September. I have not been in good health since 2010. Each winter, I tend to catch illnesses which would cause me to miss school by 6-8 weeks in total. The doctors could not explain why I was ill so much. Some of them attributed it to possible stress. I managed to get reasonably good scores in my GCSE last year (including A* in maths, physics and chemistry; A in biology, English Lit and Economics, 2 Bs and 2 Cs in other subjects).

Since beginning of March this year, I have been feeling unwell again and a specialist diagnosed me as suffering from mild depression and informed the school. I couldn’t attend school due to being unable to concentrate and started therapy. At the beginning of May, the head of student progress in my year rang my Dad and told him that given I had been absent for 2 months, they would not allow me to sit the AS exams and they would remove me from the school roll. They also said that if I wanted to go back to school in September, I would have to apply again to be admitted. My Dad emailed the school to ask if I could be taken back directly rather than going through the admission process again as I had been at the school and the admission process for September had finished last December, but they never replied.

Yesterday, I got a letter from the school saying that they won’t be able to offer me a place this September. So they effectively kicked me out purely because of my illness and won’t take me back. I am really, really angry and desperate. I have recovered well from the illness and the doctor told me that I should be well enough to go back to the school in September. Now I don’t have a school to attend, can anyone advise me what to do? Who should I contact about this issue?

Reply 1

carrotstar

I can see their point. If you're not there for much of the lessons then you will miss large chunks of the subjects. I'd suggest you do some research into home-schooling for A-levels. This way the amount of time you spend each day learning is flexible. There seems to be nothing you can do about this recurring illness, so you'll have to work around it.

Reply 2

Origami Bullets

Is there another school or college that you could go to locally?

Alternatively, you could argue that they are in breach of the Equalities Act as they have failed to make reasonable adjustments....

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Reply 3

xchaliax

You could enter exams as a private candidate if you are prepared to self teach.

If you go onto the exam boards websites you can find more information about this process.

I have recently just been kicked out of my school in A2, a week before my exams for a similar reason. Schools image is everything, Its how they gain applicants and when they feel a student isn't going to do well they dont want the schools marks and therefore reputation to go down. Its a very weird rude concept as you would think a schools job is to primarily teach students and for the students to do well. However this is an aspect of the modern education system.

I have worked up to this for two years now when i was prepared to now have to delay everything further. I hope everything workd out for you

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