A LAD stuck on an ADHD waiting list for nearly five years has been blocked from attending a school half a mile away with pals as it would cost too much.
Mason Boyle, 12, has been told he cannot start lessons at the secondary a ten-minute walk from home as a skint council would have to fork out for another teacher.
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Experts believe he has ADHD after a phone assessment when he was seven, but he’s still waiting for a formal diagnosis.
Mason’s carer mum Denise Kelly, 44, put in a placement request for St Paul’s High in Pollok, Glasgow.
She told The Scottish Sun: “It’s heartbreaking.
“Mason enjoyed school and his teachers tell us he’s above average in lessons.
“He’s terrified about moving up on his own when all his friends are going somewhere else.
“The council say they don’t have the resources at the school he wants to go to.
“Mason is refusing to go to the other one — he’s petrified.
“He isn’t capable of taking the bus on his own and it’s too far to walk alone.
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“It’s been nearly five years since we spoke to somebody on the phone who says they think he might have ADHD and autism.
“All anybody in the health service will tell us is that we are still on the waiting list.
“It feels like we’re being penalised but we aren’t getting any help.”
Denise received a letter claiming her school of choice “would have to be altered or significant money spent”.
Bosses say they would have to hire another teacher and his presence is “likely to be seriously detrimental” to other kids.
Denise says her boy has been allocated Hillpark Secondary in nearby Mansewood.
He would have to catch a bus, which she says he can’t do alone.
She said: “It feels like we’re being penalised.”
Glasgow City Council said: “We know request refusals are upsetting.”