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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is wonderful. She's also dyslexic. Would a private school like Maret or Sidwell or Green Acres be able to accommodate her? 
She's a rising sixth grader. [/quote]

Query whether you'd want to put her in an environment where kids with LD are routinely counseled out or not admitted in the first place. Kids with LD do get into elite private schools, but only if they can more or less hide their LDs, their LDs are considered "minor," or if they come from extremely wealthy donor families. Even if she gets in, what sort of message does that send to her? They're private schools; they can admit whomever they like, but I think there is a psychological cost to going to a school where the schools actively screen out kids who have her same LD.

My youngest is in the process of getting diagnosed with what looks like severe dyslexia and one thing I've begun to really wrap my head around is how to look for environments where neurodiversity is a core value. Even if he can get accommodations to help with reading, I don't think that helps if the admittance philosophy of the school is that he'd be admitted only if he can hide or minimize a core part of who he is. This is something I'm grappling with myself, although my DS is much younger and we're not looking at MS yet. [/quote]

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