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[quote=Anonymous]Back story is we are very likely pulling our 3rd grader out of our mainstream private school and going to public next year.  He has had some emotional/behavior issues over the past year but is now on medication and has a behavior plan in place, and is significantly improved.  We spoke to the local public principal and he thinks he will fit right in, with possibly a 504 plan to help with some planning/organizational/emotional help.  Our current school also say he is below grade level in reading, but his weekly reading tutor is a FCPS teacher who says he is on grade level and doing great and is at grade level so we aren't sure what is correct there.  He is quite advanced in math, and his WISC was over 90% but may he probably would not have qualified for AAP due to his reading issues (I'm not sure, he may have been borderline).  We have had him tested and there are no major issues. Regardless, the private doesn't seem to want to deal with him any more, and we have lost enough trust in them that we aren't sure we are willing to pay the huge tuition for him to go there next year.  And he doesn't have enough issues to need a special ed school.  McLean might have been a good fit but its pretty far away.

I've heard mixed things about public school.  Our local school is an AAP center, but DS would be in the gen ed program.  Are there still advanced groups for math that they might put him in?  I'm assuming that they would be good at and very able to help with his reading issues, but I'm not sure how much personal attention he would get.  Will he get lost in the large classes?  Will he make friends?  I would really appreciate some reassurance that it will be ok. I hear mostly about AAP which sounds great but he cannot handle the advanced curriculum in all subjects right now. Most of our neighbors are in language immersion so they don't really know much about the local school.  It is well regarded in general though.[/quote]

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