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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, my daughter was in a progressive school. I thought they'd be more tolerant, not less. Go figure.
As you can see from the comments above, once your child has been counseled out, people make a lot of assumptions: that your child must be seriously disabled, that he or she had serious, unmanageable behavioral issues and disrupted the entire class, that you were an obnoxious, aggressive, helicopter parent, all of which just makes the experience of being counseled out all the more damaging. And if it happens at a progressive school...well, if such a warm, wonderful, welcoming place would do that to your child, then you all must be super f***ed up. If you try to explain how it all happened, it sounds so preposterous, that people think you're a liar in addition to all of the above.
Again, wouldn't it be nice if the schools had to make their "counseling out" rates public?[/quote]

I'm not making any of those assumptions, I've just reacted to the idea of making a complain with DOJ.

I have a child with SN.  I understand your anger but everything you are doing will make it more difficult for our kids to be accepted at independent schools.  Publish rates for counseled out kids?  That will just guarantee that schools won't accept any child who might have any potential problems.  File a complaint with DOJ?  Again, if it succeeded -- which it won't -- it would just create a disincentive for schools to accept your child and mine.

It really would be better for your child if you took all this energy and directed it instead toward getting a real diagnosis and therefor appropriate interventions.[/quote]

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