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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you for these lovely and helpful responses.  I’m curious about the suggestions for public school.  His local school is pretty big and the reason we avoided it was the fear of him getting lost academically with ADHD.  I also made the assumption (perhaps wrongly?) that public school kids would be less accepting and less willing to give other kids a chance because they are also trying to figure out how to fit in amongst the sea of kids.  I guess I have this wrong.  Looking at different schools for him is definitely part of our plan for high school.  And if we need to, perhaps for 8th grade as well.  I didn’t consider public an option but I’m intrigued by the recommendation. [/quote]

My daughter goes to a public middle school of about 1100 kids. They all know who is in therapy/treatment for anxiety, anger issues, ADHD, autism, etc. In a big public school, no one seems to care. The only kids they are really mean about is the self contained class of kids with moderate intellectual disability. This is hard for my kid who has a sister with profound intellectual disability that goes to another school.

My kid and I talk about the friend situation at school and her perspective is that basically everyone at school seems to have at least one friend. While I’m sure that isn’t true, it definitely seems like many people manage to find a friend in a large diverse school.

I really think you should give a large school a shot. And find a way for him to check out a variety of clubs that might interest him.[/quote]

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