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I think your child was counseled out appropriately.  It wasn't done because your family receives aid it was because the school can't meet his needs.

Other kids might behave badly but if it's just crappy behavior of a NT kid that is something different than a child with autism.

We are a financial aid family at a private school and we sacrifice a lot to pay our portion of the tuition.  We do it because our public options are bad and quite frankly I expect the school to maintain a student body that they can reasonably serve academically and behavior wise without taking away from my child.

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I agree that it was appropriate for my child to be counseled out. The WAY that they counseled him out was reprehensible. [b]Some of the things that the staff said about him and TO him were demeaning and cruel. They let other children tease and humiliate him[/b]. This was at the same time they were singing their own praises about the caring, family-like feel of the school, and how they could turn children around by believing in them, and individualizing to meet their needs.  :roll:

[b]How do YOU know it had nothing to do with financial aid? You have no idea what school it even was; I was deeply involved for years.[/b]

To answer another PP's question, we moved to a better school district, and ds is happy in public school.[/quote]

Maybe, maybe not.

A child who has difficultly knowing social boundaries and may have trouble regulation emotional responses may over react emotionally to something that had not intention of being demeaning and cruel.  And parents who receive who have received a tough to hear diagnosis may also be over emotional to any perceived criticism.

And as far as financial aid not being a factor, it doesn't take genius - for the best case scenario we take a Big 3 with a tuition price tag of $32K and financial aid of 90%.  Your kid leaves so they possibly recoup $28K.  That amount is not going to make or break any school that is in decent financial shape in the DC metro area.  On the flip side, if your child is full pay, they don't care as much either because they will just get another full pay child to take his spot.

You said your were deeply involved in the school - so I would actually tend to believe that they didn't like you and didn't like your kid somewhat but you were really the tipping point. That's what I have personally seen in my experience of private school.
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