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[quote=Anonymous]As a fellow public school parent who has also suffered through the problem of one kid taking up too much of a teacher's attention: a $70k/year school ought to be able to figure out a way to manage that. Heck, even a wealthy public school will have a team of paraprofessionals to pull out kids with extra needs for a big part of their day; the private school I went to 30 years ago was a whole lot dinkier than St. Ann's and yet they had a whole separate track for kids with ADHD, with their own schedule and low-ratio classes and so on. There's no reason on earth why St Ann's couldn't afford to hire a couple of people to ensure that students with learning differences are well taken care of.

Also, telling them *in February* that the kid can't return for 9th grade is particularly awful because it means their high school choices are essentially a) go to to whatever private school still has room and will take your kid, b) go to whatever public high school you get assigned to with no applications and no SHSAT, or c) move to the suburbs.[/quote]

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