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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they want to live very close to his job, the in-bounds elementary school is Van Ness and it gets good reviews. It is fairly small and only will have grades PK through 3 next year. I don't know how the special ed curriculum is, but it would be worth talking to the principal and other teachers. Since DC has free PreK, it's possible that both kids could go to the same school (the little one would have a preference if her older brother enrolled, giving her a very good shot of getting in). Having a short commute to work and a single drop off might leave time and energy for doing other therapies and activities.

Other schools they might want to consider are [b]Bridges and Creative Minds[/b] (both charters that say they have a focus on inclusion of kids with special needs) and School Within School (a citywide magnet that seems to have more outdoor time and a staff that's open to kids with special needs). [/quote]

With a job at Navy Yard? I don't know where they could afford to live, but that sounds like commuting nightmare to me.

Also I don't believe for a second that bridges is all it's cracked up to be. [/quote]

[b]What are your concerns about Bridges? Do you have firsthand experience? [/b]
Actually, I think any of these schools would be quite doable if you lived up near Bridges or CM (somewhere between Petworth and Ft. Totten) or Capitol Hill (SWS). As long as you live pretty close to a metro station you could get down to Navy Yard pretty handily. The problem is getting in -- as PPs noted, you have to get a seat through the lottery. There are no guarantees and you won't know if you have a seat until March 2018 at the earliest. Bridges has a special lottery for kids in the non-categorical classrooms, but sounds like these kids don't need that restrictive of an environment. OP: your brother or sister in law could always call Bridges and discuss the needs to the older child to see if a non-cat classroom would be good for him.[/quote]

No, but I've hired a lawyer to fight DCPS (re: a school not mentioned here ever), and they were all DO NOT go to Bridges.  They were speaking about my kid, older elementary, who wouldn't need a non-cat/self contained classroom.

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