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[quote=Anonymous]I can relate to this post as it has been my intention to transfer DS to Bullis after middle school at McLean.  We applied out for high school but, assuming DS is accepted at Bullis or SAES and it is our decision to make, I suspect that we will end up staying at McLean. DS is a bright guy who came to McLean after a lost year at his local public. There was such a huge gap between his intelligence and his work product. i know that a natural lack of organization was part of the problem but also that he didn't seem to be learning in school. Consequently I was trying to teach him in the evenings before he could complete homework. Those  were some painful times! He doesn't have a learning disability diagnosis but his psych-Ed test showed that he is dominantly a visual learner  and he quite literally had shut off audio processing sometime in ES. He was winging it, as the tester told me.  At McLean, teachers use audio cues for him to learn from lectures but still provide video feedback like charts and pics for the physics unit, to which he can easily relate. I have seen such progress in this audio and visual processing connection. Maybe this isn't the best example but is freshest in my mind since I was just reviewing his homework, yes on a snow day.   I recently took the upper school tour and sort of loved it more than I expected. I can completely see how the classroom environment would play to his strengths and help him develop more tools to address his weaknesses. I am not convinced yet that the learning center at Bullis will be the right fit. Bullis is nice though with that beautiful campus and all the turf. There are so many trade offs and luckily plenty of time to consider them. [/quote]

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