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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our experience, no. My DC with those diagnoses has been there since 4th grade and has not made much academic progress at all, and the middle school environment is much worse than that of our local public school. [/quote]

I am not trying to invalidate your experience, but I would note that, especially in grades 4-7, having scores flatline might well be progress because your student didn't fall behind. Metacognition and increasingly sophisticated questions are what this age group is all about, and many neurotypical, nondyslexic kids' grades slip and slip until they figure out what middle-school work looks like. So it may be that your student is doing better than you think. At least, I hope that for you.

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This quote sounds like it came directly from an administrator at Siena but I do have to say that I agree with it. Siena didn't do everything perfectly for my kid but they did it better than they would have at other schools. Whenever I've had an issue, it's been resolved to the best of everyone's ability and with the resources they have. This is the first time my child is actually ok socially and feels safe because their school counselor really took their needs seriously. This has been the consensus from other parents I interact with. Sad the counselor left but the new one is doing a just fine. We've never met a group of teachers that actually know my kid so well. I am concerned with the amount of turnover of teachers and the number of classes each teacher has to prepare for. I think some of the high school teachers teach three different courses and that's probably too much given this population. All kids are different with different needs but, as a teacher myself, we couldn't be happier. As far as the wokeness stuff goes and as a white person, the data shows that it makes a difference for everyone but data doesn't seem to matter these days. Shrug.[/quote]

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