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[quote=Anonymous]I hate to be the buzzkill here but we found huge prejudice when trying to transition.  We did the SN route from pre-K through 1 and our child did tremendously well and was clearly miles ahead of peers with respect to readiness to transition to a mainstream school.  But when we interviewed at other private schools we had one hell of a time getting in, and got rejected at several.

In our case it worked out miraculously well -- one school looked past the SN background at our child's significant talents and potential (which included strong academic performance, various artistic talents, high achievement scores, and boundless positive enthusiasm).  Child is now performing at the top of the class in a good mainstream school -- indeed, one far stronger than a couple that had given us rejections.  A year and a half in, it's overwhelmingly clear that our child would have been one of the strongest students in any of the other schools we applied to, a lead performer in any mainstream class (we felt this already based on performance in extracurriculars but have had it proved in spades since moving over).

In retrospect I almost shudder with fear over how hard it might have been had we tried to make the transition at a later year.  We found the anti-SN prejudice very powerful even coming out of first grade.[/quote]

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