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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We pulled both of our DC's from SSSAS because it was absolutely horrible for the twice exceptional student. Awful!

Independent schools are limited in their resources and will offer very little in services outside the core competencies of most students. Our DC's regularly challenged this system by too advanced in several subjects and teachers would literally call us asking us to "hold Larla" back a bit because "Larla" was too far ahead the rest of the class. Adding to this problem, both DC's are slow processors and poor self advocates, which led to bullying that the school was painfully slow to address, and other daily annoyances.

We considered transferring our DC's to Potomac, until we met an administrator at a cocktail party a couple of years ago who told us that they offer no services for kids like ours, especially for the one who has a bit of auditory processing issues.

Your best bet is consider Commonwealth Academy, Maret, LAB, or go public based on my personal knowledge -- however, I think Flint Hill has gotten good reviews on DCUM.

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GDS is a good fit too.  They don't have a lot of truly gifted students, but they do focus on accommodating LDs and the whole place is just different from the elite privates.[/quote]

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