McLean School in Potomac for Child without LD?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

Are you the OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

Not PP, but Lab, Siena, Jemicy would be good options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.

I hope you don't mind my asking (new PP here) - where have you found the best support for Dyslexia as an external support while at public? We are looking at the same situation you were in and making the change from private to public. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.

I hope you don't mind my asking (new PP here) - where have you found the best support for Dyslexia as an external support while at public? We are looking at the same situation you were in and making the change from private to public. Thanks.

We are still feeling our way, so I am no means an expert, but we've had really good luck with speech therapists (that's who taught my child how to read in the first place).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.

Was this recent? Not that it applies to the original poster, whose child does not have a learning disability, but still.

[Anonymous]

So then where did you send him to school?

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.

I hope you don't mind my asking (new PP here) - where have you found the best support for Dyslexia as an external support while at public? We are looking at the same situation you were in and making the change from private to public. Thanks.

We are still feeling our way, so I am no means an expert, but we've had really good luck with speech therapists (that's who taught my child how to read in the first place).

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit. They will not be able to support your child. They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.

Can you say more? And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.

So then where did you send him to school?

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.

Was this recent? Not that it applies to the original poster, whose child does not have a learning disability, but still.

Yes. But my experience only applies to the lower school. The middle school may be very different -- I don't know.

[Anonymous]

We knew a family that placed a child at McLean because other schools thought she was too young for the grade the parents wanted her to be in, and McLean seemed willing to accommodate them. She had no LD that I know of. I do not know how that has worked out for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We knew a family that placed a child at McLean because other schools thought she was too young for the grade the parents wanted her to be in, and McLean seemed willing to accommodate them. She had no LD that I know of. I do not know how that has worked out for them.

They spent $35K just so their child could go to school in the grade the parents wanted her to be in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We knew a family that placed a child at McLean because other schools thought she was too young for the grade the parents wanted her to be in, and McLean seemed willing to accommodate them. She had no LD that I know of. I do not know how that has worked out for them.

They spent $35K just so their child could go to school in the grade the parents wanted her to be in?

So? It won't be the first time that's happened. I did it for my kid (different school).

[Anonymous]

Really? You're cray, cray too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really? You're cray, cray too.

maybe we're all cray cray sweetheart. maybe we're all on the spectrum, but there's no one-size fits all in this life, you do what you need to do and it if it doesn't chime with the majority, really who gives a fig.