Best mainstream privates for kids with mild learning support needs

[Anonymous]

Kids with disclosed autism will not be admitted even to most SN privates. Some students are grandfathered in for financial or diversity reasons in the past few years when the diagnosis is given after the student has attended the school for at least a year, but this is a new approach. Faculty oppose it. Diagnoses should not ever be disclosed to private schools. Only the specific accommodations required should be given to the school. That is the only information they need to determine if they can accommodate the student or not. Disclosing diagnoses just engenders shunning and discrimination. And if your DC is rejected or counseled out, consider your family fortunate. It's worse when they spend all year allowing the teachers to exclude the DC so that you will withdraw voluntarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

[Anonymous]

I second Field or Green Acres

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids with disclosed autism will not be admitted even to most SN privates. Some students are grandfathered in for financial or diversity reasons in the past few years when the diagnosis is given after the student has attended the school for at least a year, but this is a new approach. Faculty oppose it. Diagnoses should not ever be disclosed to private schools. Only the specific accommodations required should be given to the school. That is the only information they need to determine if they can accommodate the student or not. Disclosing diagnoses just engenders shunning and discrimination. And if your DC is rejected or counseled out, consider your family fortunate. It's worse when they spend all year allowing the teachers to exclude the DC so that you will withdraw voluntarily.

Don’t they ask if there is a know diagnosis and what it is and what the current treatment or accommodations are?
Can you really just leave that blank, even if you’re not doing any treatment or meds?

Or is it better to skip a formal diagnosis and just seek therapies and many attention meds via pediatrician?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone on this board ever done formal evaluations by a specialist before? They have one form for the schools and one for the families. The school form is the one that you should give to the schools. It gives the schools the info they need without sharing unnecessary health information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone on this board ever done formal evaluations by a specialist before? They have one form for the schools and one for the families. The school form is the one that you should give to the schools. It gives the schools the info they need without sharing unnecessary health information.

So you give the teacher write up, not the fully doctor write up/dx once complete?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

Not to mention, they really are just a slight step up from public school with class sizes above 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone on this board ever done formal evaluations by a specialist before? They have one form for the schools and one for the families. The school form is the one that you should give to the schools. It gives the schools the info they need without sharing unnecessary health information.

So you give the teacher write up, not the fully doctor write up/dx once complete?

Yes, you can decide which details go in the report to school. It does no one (your child nor the school) any favors to hide important things but you can keep out things that aren’t necessary for them. The therapists know how to do this. Totally routine for them.

I say yes get a formal evaluation otherwise you don’t know how to support the child or whether they improve or needs change longitudinally.

Good luck to all, none of this is easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone on this board ever done formal evaluations by a specialist before? They have one form for the schools and one for the families. The school form is the one that you should give to the schools. It gives the schools the info they need without sharing unnecessary health information.

So you give the teacher write up, not the fully doctor write up/dx once complete?

Yes, you can decide which details go in the report to school. It does no one (your child nor the school) any favors to hide important things but you can keep out things that aren’t necessary for them. The therapists know how to do this. Totally routine for them.

I say yes get a formal evaluation otherwise you don’t know how to support the child or whether they improve or needs change longitudinally.

Good luck to all, none of this is easy.

I wrote the first comment in this thread. I do not decide which details go into the formal report to the school. If asked, the doctor will provide a school report but only on request. Families are given a report containing diagnostic information and other details that are not on the school report such as weight, bp, visit history, etc. The school report contains information not found on the family report, like accommodations if needed. I have given the school report to schools before for my DC, but they always lose it and look confused when I bring a new one in. My DC sees his specialist once a year. I do not think that anyone at the private he attends ever reads the reports I give.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

Not to mention, they really are just a slight step up from public school with class sizes above 20.

But they want us to get excited about how many famous and “well to do” alumni they have while they discriminate against children with ADHD. The irony of it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

Not to mention, they really are just a slight step up from public school with class sizes above 20.

But they want us to get excited about how many famous and “well to do” alumni they have while they discriminate against children with ADHD. The irony of it all.

OMG This!!!! That their whole sales pitch. Their curriculum at the Daisy Lane school is trash. They allowed the head of the Daisy lane school use her own curriculum. I remember attending an open house and all they talked about was The Who’s who of parents. I’d go public 1st. Very overrated! They don’t even have a learning specialist so that should tell you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

Not to mention, they really are just a slight step up from public school with class sizes above 20.

But they want us to get excited about how many famous and “well to do” alumni they have while they discriminate against children with ADHD. The irony of it all.

OMG This!!!! That their whole sales pitch. Their curriculum at the Daisy Lane school is trash. They allowed the head of the Daisy lane school use her own curriculum. I remember attending an open house and all they talked about was The Who’s who of parents. I’d go public 1st. Very overrated! They don’t even have a learning specialist so that should tell you!

It's just a sign that they are desperate to enroll students to avoid school closure. St. Anne's closed and they are next to run out of money...

The desperate Catholics are all courting LD students too with programs staffed by people who have zero training in special education. It's an enrollment grab. You'll see this at all of the schools that are struggling with enrolling an adequate number of full pay students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

Not to mention, they really are just a slight step up from public school with class sizes above 20.

But they want us to get excited about how many famous and “well to do” alumni they have while they discriminate against children with ADHD. The irony of it all.

OMG This!!!! That their whole sales pitch. Their curriculum at the Daisy Lane school is trash. They allowed the head of the Daisy lane school use her own curriculum. I remember attending an open house and all they talked about was The Who’s who of parents. I’d go public 1st. Very overrated! They don’t even have a learning specialist so that should tell you!

I got a “cliquey” kind of vibe. It just didn’t feel genuine to me. So I saved my money and didn’t even apply. Their registration fee is complete BS too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not Holy Trinity. They discriminate and deny your child if there’s a learning disability or ADHD. Steer clear.

The one in Bowie, not Georgetown. Avoid.

Yes Holy Trinity Bowie is horrible.

This.

Not to mention, they really are just a slight step up from public school with class sizes above 20.

But they want us to get excited about how many famous and “well to do” alumni they have while they discriminate against children with ADHD. The irony of it all.

OMG This!!!! That their whole sales pitch. Their curriculum at the Daisy Lane school is trash. They allowed the head of the Daisy lane school use her own curriculum. I remember attending an open house and all they talked about was The Who’s who of parents. I’d go public 1st. Very overrated! They don’t even have a learning specialist so that should tell you!

I got a “cliquey” kind of vibe. It just didn’t feel genuine to me. So I saved my money and didn’t even apply. Their registration fee is complete BS too.

Yes, $1200 annual enrollment fee.