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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is garbage. They have a wonderful support team in the upper school.[/quote]

I agree that the Education Center itself is helpful. It's some of the teachers who are ready to classify kids with learning differences as less capable and less hard working. They may not realize that's the signal they're sending, yet they do and it's damaging.

Our bright, imaginative child is in the school and has always tested at the very top range of cognitive ability in the diagnostic evaluations. But she has significant difficulties with executive function and processing speed. She spends many hours every afternoon and night striving to keep up and do quality work. One teacher told me recently (after I saw her up until midnight several nights in a row) that "she needs to make more of an effort."  My head was ready to explode. How can a professional educator be so obtuse?  She works twice as hard as most of the kids to reach the same result. It pains me that this isn't understood, and that she sees herself through their eyes.

Don't get me wrong. We love so much about this school. But given its emphasis on faculty training, you'd just think they'd know better by now. [/quote]

SAES is nothing special.  It is not St. Albans or Episcopal.  It is a very average education.[/quote]

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