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[quote=Anonymous]We got a surprise diagnosis of dyslexia for our kid when he wasn’t second grade and opted to move him to Siena. It was very clear to me that while his teachers and atmosphere were kind, there was no way he was going to get the remediation he needed in school or even with all of the tutoring. This may not be the same for everyone’s kid.

I wanted to note that it meant giving up a neighborhood school for a further commute and that he maintains his relationships with his neighborhood friends and even developed them further. I sort of feel like the argument of, “I don’t want to move them away from their friends” is giving the kid a little too much power and also indicating that they will not be OK with change. There’s a lot of research that when anxious people avoid things out of anxiety, their brain gets a message that avoidance is good, but that’s not a healthy strategy in the long-term. I know we are lucky that our kid is adaptable and makes lots of friends, but if your kid needed to go to a school for Deaf students because their elementary school didn’t have enough sign language supports in fourth and fifth grade, you would probably make the change. Just because dyslexia isn’t as obvious a difference, it’s still a difference that’s important to consider.[/quote]

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