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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DS has ADHD and has attended a highly regarded all boys since 3rd grade. He is now in early middle school. Trying not to divulge too much because there can't possibly be too many like us. He started in a well rated public, we left because we felt he needed a smaller environment, and he was diagnosed with ADHD later that year. He has generally done well at school - not perfect but very well. He is a strong student academically and we have assumed the private school environment has helped socially and with school involvement.

So here is the deal. We are putting almost all of our disposable income into the private school and are starting to question if the value if there given the sacrifice financially. We are in a good suburban MoCo feeder. I worry about him academically, socially, athletically, pretty much everywhere by putting him in public, but I also wonder if he might be more explicit assistance with his ADHD. Right now he gets nothing but extra test time at the private. Grades are OK at school though and he doesn't even use it most the time.

As the kids at private get older I can see some of them really starting to take off  and I am not sure if this is in the cards for our child, which is OK, but I wonder if the $40k+ we spend could be allocated differently to help him...even to the point of a 'nest egg' for a first house, etc.  
Anyone experienced anything similar? [/quote]

We are also in a well regarded Bethesda cluster, but my DC's neuropsychologist recommended that we send DC to a private high school due to MCPS' large class sizes.  DC has inattentive ADHD, is well behaved, and 2E, so DC's doctor thought that in large classes DC wouldn't get much attention from teachers. DC's main accomodation is extra time.

Yes, we could have used the tuition money for other things, but DC did so well at their private high school that we think it is worth it.

This is really a personal cost benefit analysis for every family.  [/quote]

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