A PARENT has claimed a school’s “lack of care” for her 15-year-old daughter forced her to turn to home education.

Julie Wynn, 53, from Orsett, says Hathaway Academy, in Hathaway Road, Grays, failed to take care of her daughter Roxie Jones, who was in Year 10, after she was forced to miss school as a result of two ear operations.

She has since claimed her daughter was left largely unsupervised for four months in a conservatory at the school, and was subjected to persistent bullying as a result of not being able to hear out of her left ear.

In September 2016, Ms Wynn opted to remove Roxie from the school and has been home-educating her ever since.

She said: “The headteacher promised to look after Roxie, and they did not do that.

“She was being bullied by six or seven pupils there, and the school did not do enough in my view. Her school work suffered as she was left in a conservatory unsupervised for four months.

Ms Wynn says the experience has “broken her daughter” and that her aim is to get her back into mainstream education.

She said: “Right now we are working out of the books to keep her up to date with school, but the experience has set her back in my view.

“There is only so much I can help with in terms of school work. She is a good pupil who wants to learn, and Hathaway Academy didn’t help her to do that at all.

“All we want is an apology for how she has been treated.”

Ms Wynn says she will be pursuing the matter with her MP in the hope of getting a solution ahead of Roxie’s GCSEs next year.

Fatima Rodrigues, Principal at The Hathaway Academy, insists “every child matters and deserves a first-class education”.

She said :“We cannot discuss the circumstances of individual pupils.

“However, we can confirm that the education, safety and wellbeing of our pupils is always our highest priority.”