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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We do know that the school sent the decline to enroll in February, which is too late to transfer elsewhere[/quote]

I am in full agreement that they should have let the family know of the decline earlier, so that they could apply to privates specializing in kids with disabilities, if private is what they wanted.  However, it is not accurate to say it was "too late to transfer elsewhere."  Public school, which the vast majority of children in the US attend, and is legally required to provide accommodations, is always an option.[/quote]

I live in NY. February is far too late for applying to publics (which is what we do here). That window closes before Christmas. The city would have placed him at one of our 400 high schools with seats open - so not a great one.  By February, families would have missed out doing all the crazy things we do here: rank schools maybe write an essay maybe take a test maybe audition and def tour the schools. The process is especially important for a family who will be ranking schools with a lot of support.[/quote]

But what is a school to do if they have tried to counsel out FOR YEARS but the parents won't listen? There will inevitably come a year when the school will need step up and deny a contract for the upcoming school year. This almost always happens in the early spring at independents. We'll never know what really happened. The school could have said that he was not being offered a spot back in the fall, but the parents didn't truly believe it until they didn't get an actual contract in February.[/quote]

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