• February 8, 2025

I left school feeling that I was broken and that I had no skills. Read More...

• February 11, 2025

School was overwhelming. Read More...

• February 11, 2025

School was scary. Read More...

• February 11, 2025

I applied for an ehcp needs assessment that was refused and school said they couldn’t apply as there was insufficient evidence. Read More...

• February 11, 2025

**Trigger Warning** This wasn't just anxiety, something serious was going on here. Read More...

• February 11, 2025

**Trigger Warning** We were told to take her to school in her pyjamas kicking and screaming. She wouldn't do it again they said. Read More...

• February 11, 2025

I felt invisible, unworthy and stupid. Read More...

• February 12, 2025

I witnessed bullying not only between children but between staff and children and between staff. Read More...

• February 12, 2025

I was so scared of getting things wrong at school. I used to have tummy aches and feel sick and want to go home because I couldn't make friends and I was not keeping up. Read More...

• February 12, 2025

I failed most of my GCSEs because I was too afraid to go to school and when I was at school I hid in the corner trying not to attract attention to myself. Read More...

• February 12, 2025

I had always believed that school would be the best place for my child to be educated and that they and the LA would support us to provide with an education but I was wrong. Read More...

• February 12, 2025

I can not see another child go through the pain and mental torture that my elder 2 have endured in an unhappy situation at school. Read More...

• February 12, 2025

“I didn’t really like school this last year. They weren’t treating me in a way that would help me.” Read More...

• February 13, 2025

Mistake 1, nobody at this school responds to bullying. Reporting made things worse, parents urged school to act. Read More...

• February 13, 2025

As parents we felt that pursuing anything for him was unsafe at that school as they were showing predatory and abusive behaviour. I couldn’t trust them with my son. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

**Trigger Warning** My traumatic time at school nearly killed me... Read More...

• February 18, 2025

**Trigger Warning** He frequently had bruises, he said a child was constantly hitting him and no one helped. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

I was encouraged to drag him in from the car and the teachers would help. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

**Trigger Warning** My 100% attendance dropped to 38%, I was called defiant and confrontational. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

It was awful to see our son in so much distress, day in day out, he was so physically tense and not himself. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

I definitely have trauma from school. Thinking about it makes me tearful even now Read More...

• February 18, 2025

Starting school just after turning 4 my child faced daily bullying, their arm was stamped on so hard they had a shoe print bruise on their arm. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

**Trigger Warning** The current school system is failing children, it is destroying them, and it is not safe to send them back to. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

At school he really needed a 1-1 but there was no funding. Read More...

• February 18, 2025

The Head and Deputy Head kept telling me to repeat what I'd said, but they were getting angry so I was too scared to talk. Read More...

• February 27, 2025

**Trigger Warning** We have deregistered from a primary school and a secondary school....both too worried about statistics than my child's health and happiness. Read More...

• February 27, 2025

**Trigger Warning** The last two years of primary school, after the pandemic, my happy child returned to school and was crushed. Read More...

• February 28, 2025

'No!! She can't be autistic! She's perfectly normal'. Read More...

• February 28, 2025

Preschool told us that they had selective hearing. We knew it was more. Read More...

• February 28, 2025

Reception was lovely, but year one started with red, sore lips and sleepless nights. 'We don't play much any more and the work is too hard'. Read More...