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[quote=Anonymous]My kid was 2E, with serious adhd and high IQ and we couldn’t fun a private school to take him, as he didn’t “interview” well (basically didn’t want to engage with the classroom visit) and his teacher recommendation from public school was terrible (because the teacher didn’t know anything about SN kids and so had just ignored him all year).  We ended up begging the public school to give him a teacher with more SN and gifted experience, and the next year was a total game changer with a teacher that got him engaged and back on track.  He’s a teenager now and the behavioral challenges he had in early ES are all gone and he takes exclusively advanced classes.  But I have a definite chip on my shoulder about those private schools that billed themselves as appropriate for SN kids but then were too worried that he’d be a problem to take him.

In retrospect, I may have also been too honest about his challenges — I thought if I gave them a totally honest balanced assessment, they would appreciate that, but I think in retrospect they assume everyone is sugar coating so they may have thought things were worse than they were.
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