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[quote=Anonymous]Im one of those parents. Yes, it’s also growing in the DMV. No it’s not some war on wokeness or MAHA propaganda.

A lot of the newly homeschooled kids are neurodivergent or have severe anxiety. Programs that would have accommodated them in the past were eliminated or watered down with the final blow being COVID. There is no where to go if your kid needs smaller classrooms. Or support. Kids who are around grade level but neurodivergent really have nothing….

My kid is intellectually on grade level and has a robust iep due to other impairments.she received zero services in 3 years - and we lawyers involved….

Bullying on the playground, classes of 28 kids, overcrowded buildings. My kid developed severe anxiety. Started to be scared to go to school. Yes was put on meds. It didn’t help. Her therapist (outside school) would remind her she was safe. Then the next day would be an active shooter drill…and then some kid hit her and gave her friend a black eye on the playground. Because that kid had needs also and nowhere to go.

I remember once in first grade just after Covid she cried because she felt that all the adults were lying not her. She spend her formative years in lockdown wearing masks and all of a sudden she was being told “there’s nothing to worry about” as the whole class got sick. Yes, as an adult you think “suck it up, it’s life” but to an autistic 7 year old who had been told since age 4 that these evil germs will kill you - it’s gaslighting.

Eventually the school said they didn’t know what to do with her. If it was 10 years earlier they would have had an program,’but that got cut. And after years of stress we just had to pull her out.

And that’s the same story we are hearing in the local homeschool community. There just aren’t options.[/quote]

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