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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The prejudice on display in this thread clearly comes from ignorance.[/quote]

there’s zero prejudice here. just massive eyerolling at the claims that 1/3 of tony private school kids actually have a disabiling condition. [/quote]

I bet it is difficult for you to be so ignorant about disabilities so as to be posting so aggressively about this[/quote]

No, I have a kid with autism. I’ve asked multiple times for people to post the names of these private schools where all these kids with IEPs and support needs get admitted. Please prove me wrong, I’d love that. [/quote]

Private schools don’t have ieps. They create bespoke supports. I can only speak for nyc but there is no private in nyc that does not have some neurodiverse students. Trinity/ york prep/ Horace Mann/ Columbia grammar browning and Buckley all have lots of hfa kids and fieldston, poly prep, Dwight, ethical, Trevor day all have adhd kids (half of all these have dedicated support streams built in but are mainstream). 
Surprised this is not typical in dc. [/quote]

Some. And likely were admitted in younger grades and scraping buy. Obviously I know that privates do not have IEPs - but they do not and will not admit kids with a real IEP on their records, especially autism. [/quote]

If you’re going from private to private there is no iep. There is no record. You keep being told this [/quote]

look, if your kid is going from private to private with no record of support needs why are we even talking about this? you can’t have it both ways. either your kid has a real disability or they don’t. but you’re just reinforcing what’s apparent to everyone: when you want your kid to have a diagnosis they do; when you don’t, they don’t. [/quote]

What? An iep is not what makes someone have a disability. A diagnosis is. No one wants their kid to have a disability. 
The point of the post is that the diagnostic criteria is now extremely wide to the point where not only is the stereotype of neurodiversity being a barrier to entry for mainstream privates, mainstream privates are now the ones seeing neurodiversity everywhere. There is even a club at my kids private. Good for them too [/quote]

An IEP is what demonstrates that your kid has needs that require supports and modifications in the classroom. Yes, the whole point of this conversation is that the supposed “neurodiverse” kids at these supposedly “competitive” privates don’t actually have any sort of meaningful claim to being disabled. And that’s frankly insulting to those of us with very smart kids who are shut out of many educational opportunities.

I frankly do not want to hear about the “neurodiversity” of your Larla who you’ve been stuffing with Ritalin since 9, gets great grades, has tons of friends, and is applying to T20s. And you know why? Because in fact you’d be the first to ostracize my kid who doesn’t have the picturesque version of “neurodiversity” that apparently poses minimal challenges. [/quote]

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