Family rage as expelled 12-year-old son abandoned by education system for a year
dailyrecord.co.ukA 12-year-old boy has spent the past year playing football and reading books at home - after he was expelled from school. Riley Roberts was thrown out of Haywood Academy, in Burslem, due to ‘behavioural issues’ after multiple warnings and suspensions.Mum Katey Cowans and her partner, Dan Walker, both 31, feel that Riley required more one to one help in class to manage his behavioural needs which the school unfortunately was not willing to supply.
As a result, Riley has been abandoned for an entire year without proper education and spends his time kicking footballs and doing some studying from his home.The young boy's medical tests have shown that Riley does not mentally suffer from ADHD and Stoke on Trent City Council have now been asked to intervene to help source a new school for the 12 year old.
Dan, from Burslem, said: “He was always wanting attention and pushing teachers to the limit. They couldn’t handle him.“My partner was constantly called in to talk about his behaviour.
Their answer appeared to be to always exclude him - and that didn’t help his behaviour.“They recognised straight away that mainstream school isn’t for him but nothing was done about it.
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