What's the reputation of Diener versus The Auburn School (MD private schools)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is an absolute disaster at Auburn SS right now for our child. They do have kids with behaviors like throwing and eloping but those are resolved by parents paying for the support of a 1:1 aide.

They promise a lot but not of it has materialized—multi-sensory curriculum, OT integration, behavior support. Those services are sometimes called in by the teacher to help manage the classroom but not used to help create individualized strategies for supporting the kid. Social learning person just returned from maternity leave and seems good but that’s two months of tuition without a key service that we are paying for.

Unfortunately the post about Auburn “circling the drain” is feeling accurate. I wish it wasn’t the case because I had high hopes. But they lost their top administrator and office manager so there is virtually no leadership now. There is a K/1st teacher with no teaching or SN training/experience. Really egregious on the part of the school to hire her and so unfair to the kids who need the support of someone with that background.

We are actually considering Auburn right now - I thoughts it's a good school, have things changed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is an absolute disaster at Auburn SS right now for our child. They do have kids with behaviors like throwing and eloping but those are resolved by parents paying for the support of a 1:1 aide.

They promise a lot but not of it has materialized—multi-sensory curriculum, OT integration, behavior support. Those services are sometimes called in by the teacher to help manage the classroom but not used to help create individualized strategies for supporting the kid. Social learning person just returned from maternity leave and seems good but that’s two months of tuition without a key service that we are paying for.

Unfortunately the post about Auburn “circling the drain” is feeling accurate. I wish it wasn’t the case because I had high hopes. But they lost their top administrator and office manager so there is virtually no leadership now. There is a K/1st teacher with no teaching or SN training/experience. Really egregious on the part of the school to hire her and so unfair to the kids who need the support of someone with that background.

We are actually considering Auburn right now - I thoughts it's a good school, have things changed?

PP here. It was a great school at one point apparently but it is not right now. Many have talked about the parent company change, others have had not having a clear mission or staffing changes/turnover. It might be a combination of all of these. Either way, it's not serving my child and I'm really regretting our choice.