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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we were there it seemed to be one kid a year who was asked to leave, or not return the next year, always because of disruptive behavior that just proved to be unmanageable.  They are very patient and good at what they do, but are not set up for kids who need a ton of 1:1 support.  So I think you should ask yourself whether your kid can, with whatever medication intervention you are willing to provide, [b]sit in a chair and perform classroom work most of the time.[/b]  If he cannot help himself from jumping up and running around the room frequently, or from hitting other kids, then Maddux probably isn't going to be a good fit.  There are plenty of kids with ADHD there (including ours) but the ADHD is either mild enough or well controlled enough with medication that they can function in a 15 person classroom with two teachers reasonably well.

What makes this hard, I think, is that there are a lot of kids who aren't doing well in their current big public school classrooms who turn out to do much better at Maddux--because the teacher/student ratio is better, because the teachers are better trained, and because they are meaningfully included in classroom activities rather than on the periphery.  So sometimes they take a hopeful chance on a kid that doesn't end up working out.  I don't think that's a bad thing.  It wouldn't be good if they were much more cautious and didn't take chances.  it just means (as PPs have said) that they are not perfect and not a panacea for everybody.  Still, I believe they are going to make a better educated guess about whether it makes sense to try than you can.  When I first visited I thought it would be a real stretch for them to take our son, because the kids and the classroom environment just seemed more orderly and capable than he was at that time.  And I worried that they would decide they had made a mistake--especially when we took him off, for a time, the stimulant meds that he had been on for his evaluation visit.  Over time it became clear that I was wrong, and that in that environment our DS was actually right at their sweet spot. [/quote]

Why in the heck are they having special/ADHD preschool kids sitting in a chair 'most of the time' performing school work?
Geez - don't tell me you're considering this as a school for your kid are you OP?

Could you not send him to an active nursery school where they are mostly outside with a 1-1 aide?[/quote]

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