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[quote=Anonymous]     There are many kids at St. Andrew's with ADD who do extremely well, so I would not view the experience of the PP as typical.  The descriptioni of OPs child academically, socially and behaviorally sounds like a good number of high schoolers there who have done very well.  ADD presents very differently for different kids and I think all schools deal with it well or not so well within a particular range on which they focus.   While I am sure at every school someone has had a bad experience, in general we have found St. Andrew's to be extremely on top of things socially.  Our child was bullied at his previous private lower school, but has happily thrived at St. Andrew's middle and upper school.  The one time a child engaged in unwelcome teasing 3 years ago, another child and faculty quickly intervened  and put an end to it in a very effective manner.  In general, we have found the administation highly responsive, and the kids themselves very aware and supportive of each other.

I think McLean, Burke,  Field and St. Andrew's are all places where an ADD child can fit in depending on other factors.  The feel of each school is very different.  When we visited schools, our son had suprisingly strong reasons for liking some more than others that actually were reasonable -- some we had anticipated and some we did not[/quote]

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