Mum Kiley Hollington-Coombs shares her frustration after her 14-year-old son was told to stop going to VTC Independent School in Sittingbourne due to "health and safety" concerns
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00:00 It's a horrible situation to be in, being told that your child all of a sudden cannot
00:04 attend his school that he was happy in.
00:08 I know I felt awful.
00:10 I've cried quite a lot.
00:12 I've been and felt very anxious and stressed all over the place.
00:20 I feel unfocused on anything else, anything else that I'm trying to do or I've got set
00:27 in place to do.
00:28 Obviously, it's your child.
00:30 He's my child.
00:31 I'm going to worry about him.
00:32 I'm going to worry about his future.
00:35 I'm going to worry about...
00:37 I don't want him just sitting in his bedroom with nothing to do.
00:41 Worry about his thoughts and feelings and that is something that he does sometimes struggle
00:46 with and understanding his own thoughts and feelings.
00:49 So something like this that's happened and I can't answer any questions that he's asking
00:55 me, that's also heartbreaking as well, to be honest, because I can't give him them answers
01:03 that he's asking and for his own self-esteem, the whole process is just unhealthy for all
01:12 of us, to be honest.
01:14 I feel like as a parent, we've just been left in the lurch and just left to figure it out
01:21 for ourselves in a way.