Hi, I’m temporarily out of education for medical reasons and I would like to recount my experience.
To start, I have a neuromuscular condition called ‘meis 2’, this condition causes me to experience agonising pain in my legs and feet if I do ANY sort of walking. So going back to mid February 2023, a week before half term, I experienced a ‘pain spike’ as I like to call it. Basically I could hardly walk without being in pain, (more pain than usual). Because of this, I had to be off school. I was off till after Easter break, (in mid April).
I didn’t receive any work from the school whilst I was experiencing this pain spike. So, when I eventually went back to school, not only had my attendance dropped to like 35%, I was extremely far behind in school work! Baring in mind my GCSEs were around a month away! Because of all this, my mock exams had to be cancelled, and my timetable was reduced. (By this point, I was well enough to use my electronic wheelchair again).
So to put it lightly, I was screwed! I had around 3ish weeks to learn a whole school term of work! (Maths, English literature, English language, combined science, RE, History, food tech and Art). To make things ‘better’, the school told me that I’d only be doing the core subjects for my exams. (English literature and language, maths and combined science). But I STILL had like a month’s worth of school work to catch up on, and was 2 weeks away from my exams!
And to make things worse, my teacher (who knew walking was the cause of my pain) kept telling me to WALK AROUND every time she seen me! So even though I was trying to get into school everyday, I was forced to stay off because of the additional pain my teacher was causing me to have. And even on those days that I was off, they STILL didn’t send me any work to do!
So because of all that, I was forced myself into giving up and just trying my best. Skipping ahead to results day, I basically failed my GCSEs.
Am I in the wrong, or is the school in the wrong? Considering it’s only been a year, can I take the school to court or something?