School refusal
Hi everyone, I have two kids one is seven. She has ASD level 2 and ADHD I have one boy. Who's 10 who is level two asd. They both go to the same primary school in Australia.
Both of them are refusing to go to school, every day and it is an absolute battle. Just to get them to go. My son used to love going to school last year, and now because he keeps saying everything's boring. He doesn't want to go to school at all, and it's literally a battle every morning to get them to go. My daughter is just says she hates school and says its boring. She goes into these huge violent tantrums and ends up trying to destroy things and hurt us. She gets triggered When we try to get her to get dressed or try to prepare her lunch box, anything to do with school will set her off. She absolutely hates it when we get to school the teachers and AIDS have to pry her off my wife or me to take her into class.
When we talked to the teachers about how they were for the day. They say she had a good day. And when I picked them up they both seem happy, but it's just a matter of getting to go to school. The school has been super helpful and are really doing everything they can to help.
My son used to be doing advanced classes in everything, but now they say they can't put him in the advanced class because he's not even doing the basic level of things that they're doing, so he's gone from being advanced to barely covering the basic school work. Because he says he finds a boring. We've tried psychology, OT, Councelling. We've tried talking to many different people and talking to the kids about what is truly wrong but they just say they hate it. Weve said maybe we look at other schools and they hate the idea. My daughter also has been prescribed Ritalin which she absolutely refuses to take.
We really don't know what to do anymore. And we are exhausted. We just want to be a happy family with no unnecessary fighting or stress and tension. I am not working at the moment but when I do get a job it will be mostly back on my wife again..
Does anyone out there have any ideas about what may work? Any help would be greatly appreciated? Thank you.