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[quote=Anonymous]What is your child’s learning profile/needs?
I suggest you visit and ask VERY specific questions about if and how your child’s needs may get met there. Ask to speak with the teachers, get specific.
If you mutually decide it could be a good fit, have a formal meeting, get any agreements about accommodations, etc in writing. Id also suggest not attending that meeting alone. If you enroll, check in with teachers - NOT HOS - on regular basis using agreement. Get an OK for that in advance. 
I have no doubt the school works for some kids, however it is NOT a school for all types learners as they claim and the staff absolutely does not understand the details of learning differences or have the ability to or interest in consistently implementing appropriate accommodations or supports, despite their claims.
If questioned, the HOS is known to blame the child’s anxiety, for example, and become extremely defensive. The HOS has her hand in everything, including playing therapist, even though she has a F/T counselor, to the detriment of the entire school, especially vulnerable kids.
A mostly quiet, largely independent kid who needs minor social supports, a kid who simply needs a smaller setting might be kids who are well served there. Theres another kind of kid who might do ok there - but at a high cost - a kid who is vulnerable to needing/wanting connection with a HOS who sees herself as the heart and soul and LEADER of all things. Think cult of personality. 
So, in short, I do NOT recommend. Proceed carefully. And yes, we pulled our kid out, feeling completely betrayed and shocked about many troubling practices, including documented deception and manipulation. Thankfully we had highly respected professionals involved who would have never believed it if they hadn’t seen it themselves.
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