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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all the food for thought. We are doing a number of things to address the situation with him and have been for several years. We thought he was in a good place to be able to handle himself at the school he's at now, but he clearly has struggled there. Without getting into specifics, I'll say that I agree it's impulsively, lack of social understanding, and anxiety about impressing peers. We had pretty high hopes for a new ADHD meds this year, and it's been fine but hasn't resolved anything on the social front.

I hear what your saying about adult-to-child ratio and that small privates can have nice but untrained teachers. I don't expect it would be a class without kids who have behavior issues, but based on the ones we've seen, I actually think they may have kids with challenges and are trying to support them. I'm not saying they are necessarily trained in this... But as I noted earlier, we have seen that the right personality and a hands-on approach while also giving freedom works pretty well. I'm not sure I see that being likely in a public. He will find any loophole and litigate it - "but there was a kid watching YouTube in class yesterday, why did I get in trouble for it today?" "Another kid eats candy during snacktime, so why didn't the teacher let me have my whole bag of Halloween candy?" Etc. we found that in public, there were just more kids getting away with little things because of the class sizes and school sizes, and then he felt he should be able to also (and could get angry and indignant when he couldn't because it felt unfair). He's older now, and we've worked on a lot of that response issue, but I see that as a recipe for a problem in public. That's my hesitation. But I agree with the critiques of private you have shared, too.

Anyone tried online schooling? Half kidding because I don't really want this for a range of reasons, but it might be an interim solution. Our district does offer it .[/quote]

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