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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved my severely dyslexic DS to a private school after his public elementary school teacher mocked his writing in front of the class and would not post something he laboriously hand-wrote up on the wall with the work of the other students because it was too messy. He's a resilient kid -- he had to be -- but after years of hearing "you are lesser" from the public schools, that was the last straw.

The private school saw a brilliant child with a reading disability and acted accordingly. In contrast, the public school saw, and treated him as, a failure. Watching my previously beaten-down child soar has been emotionally wrenching, because I can see just how badly he was treated at the public school, and how many kids suffer just like him. He has turned into a confident reader and writer, and genuinely loves school. The private school has changed the course of his life. The entire experience has made me a supporter of income-limited vouchers, because other children should have the ability to escape, especially kids with SNs. It is heartbreaking and flat-out wrong how many kids suffer like my DS did, but who can't escape.

Caitlin Flanagan has a long history of being a shoddy and untrustworthy writer, but this article goes beyond her usual trolling drivel. I wonder if the Atlantic did any fact checking at all, maybe not because they seem to be more into truthiness rather than truth these days. [/quote]

But your example fails to mention that there are a number of private schools that would not admit your DS so as not to deal with his SN.  Additionally, the private school likely has other advantages like smaller class size, learning specialist, and potentially less kids with SN (unless its a its a SN school) that make helping and supporting your child easier.   What happen to your DS is terrible and should never happen to any child, in any school.  But we as a society can’t keep acting like public school to private school is an apples to apples comparison when we know its a apples to watermelon comparison.  I’m not excusing the teacher’s behavior or your son’s experience as that is inexcusable.  What I am saying is that your son’s experience goes beyond just a single teacher.

Example: Potomac has a bit less than 1100 students from K-12.  Meanwhile, my local public school has about 650 students in K-6.  Potomac has and Language Arts and Reading specialist for each grade K-3.  Meanwhile my local public school has 1.5 reading specialist for the entire K-6 school.  Expecting the same results from my PS as Potomac would be ridiculous.[/quote]

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