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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't see how the school is at fault. Just another sad instance of choosing image over meeting a kids needs. Paying for a school doesn't mean it's good for a child. No idea of how a lawsuit will bring peace.[/quote]

[b]The school will think twice before doing this again[/b]. Dyslexia is not that hard to accommodate. We know severaal kids with this condition.[/quote]

Not necessarily. What makes you think that? This case will be dismissed. [/quote]

They will care about the bad press. Lots of rich parents now worried that St Ann's could do this to their kid. One thing this thread is ignoring is how much St. Ann's cultivates it's rep as *open* to neurodivergence/different forms of intelligence. The no grades thing persists through high school, so it's not like he was suddenly going to fail out. It's hard to know the truth from this article, but if the kid's parents were actually like "we'd be totally fine with him going to CIA or an arts school" then the school really had little to lose by keeping him enrolled if he wasn't disruptive in class (and that is really the missing piece of info here -- if he wasn't disruptive in class, this whole thing seems like an overreaction; if he was disruptive in class, this is all much more explicable/understandable). You can tell that St. Ann's was already in damage control mode when they did their own internal evaluation, discovered they didn't have enough support staff, etc. They initiated all of that because this episode made them look bad and people were already talking about it in the NYC private school world.

I grew up in NYC and knew lots of kids at St. Ann's. One family who was close family friends of ours were wealthy & connected via the husband's job (legal field), but not old money/socially connected. They had a talented older daughter who the school wanted to keep (who went to an Ivy and who has become a huge success/is very well known in her field) and a son with a LD/ADHD. They tried to soft counsel son out repeatedly and parents resisted. The school never fully pulled the trigger on forcing him out -- I think because they wanted to keep the daughter & because they didn't want to mess with a prominent lawyer -- but pushed the hardest between 8th & 9th. Kid stayed and ended up at a T10 SLAC. I don't think the parents think they made a mistake; the factual circumstances are extremely similar. I can absolutely see why a family wants to keep their kid with his friends at his older sibling's school when they think he will do well enough for them.[/quote]

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