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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't really know what the school did or didn't do. They would be limited in what they can say about an individual student under any circumstances and once the parents filed suit, there's no way the school will say anything outside a courtroom. Maybe the annual reports included positive *and* negative feedback? Maybe the school gave additional signals about HS not being a good fit for the kid? Maybe not, but the reader has literally no way to know.

By definition, the piece only includes the parents' side of the story. And they have no incentive to offer any information that might undercut their case. Which btw is why it seems quite weird for the NYT to do a deep dive on the case, especially written by a former parent at the school.[/quote]

We do know that the school sent the decline to enroll in February, which is too late to transfer elsewhere. That is a fact which makes the school look very bad. [/quote]

I feel very bad for the parents and understand why they are devastated, but it sounds like the school had been telling them for 5 years that he was not a good fit and that he should go elsewhere because they could not help him. [/quote]

If there had been a solid letter declining re-enrollment in (say) August, the reporter would have seen it. This mushy “we aren’t sure this is the best fit but we will keep taking your money and promoting your child to the next grade” is not the same thing as a clear letter declining re-enrollment.

I will change my opinion if it comes out that the school clearly and crispy communicated the year before that there would be no re-enrollment. But as the facts stand now, the school is very much in the wrong here. [/quote]

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