Priors Court (autism) School

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I'd like to know if anyone knows anything about this school? Anyone on here has been to this school or is planning to go there in the future? Any teachers on here? Anyone with any dealings with this school? http://www.priorscourt.org.uk/

This post might sound a bit sinister but I'm just getting a feeling for who knows what about the place before I post more questions and all will be revealed.

It sounded like a regular post until you added this. Now it does sound a bit nefarious in nature.

Not nefarious (I think), It's just that I'm a builder and I've started working on an extention to the school. One of the rules for the builders is that they don't speak or interact in any way with the pupils, it's like I'm banned from speaking to my own kind.
I'm not sure if I should let the teachers know that I have aspergers (undiagnosed by a pro) so that they can point me out and show it is possible to hold down a job even with an autism. If I did this though then all my work mates would find about my aspergers and I'd definately be treated differently, at the moment they just think I'm a bit strange.

If that happens, you're within your rights to sue under the Disability Discrimination Act.

I would have thought that's to be expected, if the school has the best interests of its pupils in mind, and I doubt it's anything specific to you or your AS.
Maintaining a professional working distance and all that.

That you are better positioned than your workmates to be an example for, or possibly interact with or understand the kids is of course, subjective (I don't mean that unkindly; I simply mean that you're untrained in this area) and what you might initiate as well-meaning and potentially useful with a pupil may blow up in your face - and that would not be good for anyone.

If you end up chatting with the staff and the opportunity seems right, it may be useful to mention your AS but I certainly wouldn't push it.
Personally, if I was in this situation, I wouldn't mention it at all unless directly asked. It would be far too easy for someone to misconstrue your motives otherwise.

Good advice there Cornflake. I was thinking along the same lines especially as the pupils are described as having medium to high degrees of Autism, any good I could do could possibly be far outweighed by harm I could cause.

Thanks.
It's a difficult line to tread and I know I'd likely want to do the same thing - as you say, "banned from speaking to my own kind" - but maintaining that distance would be safest.

Hope the building work goes Ok though (at least the weather's better!) - and you never know, the staff may be very approachable and other doors will open.

The people benefitting most at the moment are my work colleagues although they probably don't realise it. I've lost count of the times I've had to explain that Autistic doesn't mean ret*d and named a few famous aspies to prove my point.

Yeah. What few talks I've had with NTs about it always seems to involve a certain amount of re-education on their part.
It's either "that Rain-Man thing" or someone with really severe mental or physical problems, and they never get the range and subtleties involved with Autism.

"That Rain Man thing" really drives me crazy. I think that it's about time that teachers wake up and realize that autism is a spectrum. The Rain Man thing gives Auti$m $peaks fule for their fire. That's a bad thing.