Alex said she feels the school is ambivalent about her son, despite it paying for one-to-one support for Benjamin via a teaching assistant, which has led to improvements.
“When Benjamin becomes dysregulated he just needs taking to a separate room until things are restored,” she said.
In a recent meeting she said she was made to feel inadequate as a parent.
She said: “One staff member implied she would not have raised him the way I have raised him.”
Alex has started an online petition, external calling on the government to ban suspensions of primary school children with additional needs because she said they “can significantly impact a child’s progression”.
The petition said: “We believe that issuing suspensions to children with SEND, as young as four, is disproportionate and discriminatory.”
Department for Education (DFE) figures published in July revealed nearly half of the 954,952 suspensions in state schools in 2023/24 were among pupils getting support for special educational needs – who were three times more likely to be suspended than their classmates.