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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child has more than mild or moderate learning differences or disabilities, McLean will not be a good fit.  They will not be able to support your child.  They will simply run out of ideas or strategies.[/quote]

NP here, but I'd add that if your child has only mild/moderate learning differences but doesn't respond to whatever the "typical" intervention is, McLean also would not be a good fit. They just don't have the flexibility or the depth of experience to be able to try a variety of different strategies.[/quote]

Can you say more?  And where would you recommend with greater flexibility and depth?[/quote]

For example, my child has a diagnosis of dyslexia, which is largely why we were at McLean. When he was struggling with comprehension, their only proposed strategy was to have more pull-out time to work on O-G (a decoding intervention). When I said the problem was with comprehension and anxiety, not decoding, they said that more decoding practice was the solution -- which might very well have been the solution for other kids and is certainly what the reading specialist specializes in. For my kid, we got an outside reading evaluation that showed that his decoding was fine, but that he didn't have/use any comprehension strategies. They were at a loss for how to deal with that.[/quote]

So then where did you send him to school?[/quote]

public, which then freed up time and money for outside support.[/quote]
Was this recent? Not that it applies to the original poster, whose child does not have a learning disability, but still. [/quote]

Yes. But my experience only applies to the lower school. The middle school may be very different -- I don't know.[/quote]

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