Mum's anger over school attendance letter

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00:00It said that it was in a worrying state at 50%, Louis has been through a stem cell transplant

00:06and he's lucky to be alive and no one is more worried about his health and his attendance

00:10than I am so I was quite disgusted to receive that to be honest.

00:13He was going to have a phased return, maybe just a couple of lessons a day to begin with

00:16but I got a phone call to say that they weren't quite ready and they hadn't done their risk

00:21assessments yet so actually it was delayed, his start, so that was down to the school.

00:27We discussed it a lot, he was excited to see his friends again, excited to get back to

00:31a bit of normality and he was really disappointed to get that phone call to say that we couldn't

00:36start on the day that we expected.

00:38So the school were contributing towards his poor attendance and then having the front

00:43to email me or message me and say that his attendance was poor when actually they'd been

00:48the ones that had contributed it to this year as well.