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[quote=Anonymous]You also might want to look at The Siena School, Kingsbury, st Andrews and Bullis.  Siena and Kingsbury are special education schools while St. Andrews and Bullis have programs in place to help and support kids with learning issues and learning styles. For HS, St. Johns and Good Counsel also have programs for kids with learning issues.

The reason that the school is excited to have a new head is that mclean has been going through a rough patch for the last  few years. The school has lost a lot of kids partly due to the recession and partly due to a feeling among a lot of parents that the school was just not teaching their kids well.

because of the losses, it becomes a very small social environment especially in MS and HS. Athletics are also hard. They have had ok bsketball and soccer team's but if you have kids that are athletic, it will not be great for them. The HS classes run 25-35 kids total which is hard for kids who want to have a social life.
The move to the new building was supposes to be for the HS. When that fell through, lots of kids decided not to stay.

Many MS kids are hesitant to stay for HS. Lots of ex Mclean students at Bullis and St.Andrews.

The complaint about too much HW is strange because for us in MS, we found too little. It did not prepare my DC for HS at all.

You also mention that teachers are experts and that is why the tuition is high. We found a wide variance in teacher's abilities and experience in dealing with kids with learning issues. You need to ask about the backgrounds and find out what their actual training is.

Most of the kids are from Maryland with a sprinkling of DC and Va kids. You asked about diversity. it is a predominately white school. There are AA kids and the head of the LS is AA. We never saw any issues with AA kids being treated harshly or insensitively.
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