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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a tutor. Tons of kids in even the top privates have accommodation and need and use them. Anxiety and ADHD are real disorders. Your question is like, "my kid needs a wheelchair but I'm not sure he will need it in private".

Your kid can have accommodations and choose to decline to use them in any situation.

You want the accommodations in place in case your kid experiences a worsening of anxiety in HS or experiences a diminished ability to compensate in the face of increased expectations - both very common in HS.

You also want accommodations in place for SAT, AP and IB exams.

Also, sometimes the meds that helped kids manage like more typical students, and thus diminish the need for accommodations, sometimes stop working or need to be adjusted, in which case the student might have to rely more on accommodations until meds are sorted.

There are so many unknowns about how your kid will react to this transition. I would never give up accommodations at a moment of transition.

Also, grades alone are not a measure of "effect of disorder". I have met plenty of straight A kids in advanced classes who are working so hard to overcome their disability without accoms that it is making them even more depressed.  They are like ducks serenely moving on the water but frantically paddling underneath to keep going.  They shouldn't be forced to self-accommodate by taking less challenging classes than they are intellectually capable of just because they need extra time.

Finally, you want to maintain a history of the plan so that accommodations can also be in place in college, which is a level at which some kids compensation tools will be overwhelmed. [/quote]

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