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[quote=Anonymous]“Unique quirks” “deeply empathetic” “strong drive to direct play” “can be quite particular about how things are done” “able to focus on a single interesting task (e.g., puzzles, legos) for several hours.” Has an easier time socializing with “older kids” (who are more socially adept and thus able to accommodate his deficiencies) even though he “wants to fit in with peers.”

You already “know he is different.”

I don’t want to issue an armchair diagnosis, but this kid is an AuDHD diagnosis waiting to happen.

Yes, even if he “doesn’t require a significant amount of support.” All individualized approaches to the curriculum, including “noticing of capability and personalization of enrichment,” is an accommodation. You’ll be more likely to get an IEP as he gets older and social expectations grow. My kid was non-disruptive, so it wasn’t until 5th grade.

I don’t know what advice to give you. I think you are focused on the wrong things. I think the things you say you want (personalized acceleration, private school but only in later grades) suggest you think of private school as primarily a matter of academic achievement. But the stronger independent schools around here have their pick of smart-enough kids; they will not want a “quirky” child, no matter how advanced. My own similar kid had a good experience with one of the DCPS schools you named, and has stuck with DCPS (which is far from perfect but is better in reality than it appears on DCUM). But I never had expectations like yours about individualized acceleration in early elementary school. For that I guess I’d look at Basis McLean or Nysmith, but my actual recommendation would be to focus on figuring out what kind of social experience (and, possibly, intervention) would actually be in your child’s best interest, because it is likely to be social issues, not academics, that will hold him back in school and in life. [/quote]

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