Daughter anxious about returning to school this week

Last Monday my daughter went back to school after homeschooling for a year. She is 10 years old, autistic, speech delay and PDA. She is in a mainstream classroom with an aide/para and going through a 30 day evaluation. Then they will schedule an IEP meeting.

Last week she did great going back to school. She was hesitant but she went on to school and she did very good. I didn’t ask the teacher how she was doing in school yet, I have only introduced myself and told the teacher if she needs anything or any support to please let me or my husband know and we will be glad to help. I am going to reach out to the teacher tomorrow to see how daughter is doing in the classroom as far as behaviors. When she was in school before she would protest, yell, scream, hit the table when doing something difficult like worksheets, certain assignments, or transition from classroom to another room like speech therapy.

This evening, we hit a rough patch. Daughter says she does not want to go to school because she already went in September and it will be October and she’s all done with school. She has been crying and rocking back and forth anxious and saying she can’t go back to school. She also has expressive and receptive speech delays so it’s hard for her to tell us how her day was or what she did that day. Everyday I ask her “what did you learn today” and she says “I do reading and math”. I then ask “what did you read about” she says “I just did learning”. I asked her tonight “why don’t you want to go to school?” and she says “I already went to school in September, I don’t want to go”.

I usually do her hair at night so she’s ready for the morning and she’s refusing to let me do this. I’m not sure what I’m going to do for tomorrow to get her to school. I’m worried about her again on how she’s doing in the classroom, if she’s disrupting the class, are the kids being kind to her… I don’t know what’s going on. This is the same thing that happened last time she was in public school. If something happens to her I wouldn’t know unless someone tells me because my daughter isn’t able to express what happened that day. What can I do to help her get to school tomorrow without her having a panic attack? Thank you for reading