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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you are in a crazy bubble.  I *wish* I was you.

Truth is I could afford to send both my kids to private school and keep our large house, full time nanny (I WOHM but that is irrelevant here) and nice cars.  Truth is I tried to, but my child has special needs and no private school will accept or keep him.  My only choice where I live is public school or homeschooling.  Among those choices I choose public school because I get better services than I could buy and he gets social exposure.  Even with that it's really really hard.
  
What you don't get is that I spend a lot of money on services for my child with private therapists, psychiatrists and other things.

I know you are thinking "oh no, I'm not talking about your special disabled child, I am thinking about all those kids that I see running around that look normal."  But the truth is that few kids are disabled enough that they appear physically compromised on first sight and at every moment have dramatically abnormal behavior.  Being an SN parent I can tell you that the vast majority of SN kids even if they need *a lot* of help to get through school and life as a whole actually seem totally fine if you see them on the street, in a shop, at a birthday party, because you are not seeing the places and times where they fail.

Honestly, you suck.  If only my problems were being judgmental about blond women with fancier cars than you that you feel superior to because you perceive you have better priorities than they do.  It's not like my life is so bad, yes I am wealthy and successful and my child will survive, so I am grateful for all of that.  But the idea that you are judging me too (although I am not blond and carry a Tumi briefcase, not a YSL handbag) is really just over the top.  Can't you find something else to keep you busy?
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I am not the OP, but I just wanted to say that our situation has been the exact opposite.  However, as a fellow parent of a child with SNs, I am totally ecstatic for you that your child's needs are getting met.  Wherever you can get a good fit, man, got for it.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the case with us, though.  My daughter was falling through the cracks at both a Catholic school and then at a FCPS.  Because she worked like a DOG and became I worked a lot with her, she was appearing to do well, but she really has dyslexia. (We eventually paid to have her privately tested.)   It would only get worse and worse as she got older and school got more complicated, so we wanted this to be addressed before this happened.  But neither school would (Catholic, because they don't have the resources; FCPS, because. . .?  I don't know?  They have bigger fish to fry?  I just don't know) do  anything.  So, rather than wait to let her fail, we had to pull her out and put her in a private school that is specifically designed to remediate dyslexia.  She is improving by leaps and bounds but nothing we could do could convince them to remediate her, unless we went through years and years of failure, maybe even lawsuits, etc.  My child doesn't have that long.  You're only in 3rd grade one time.  So, again, truly I get it:  if public school is doing super well for your son, I am so happy for you and for your son and I know both our kids will do well eventually.  It's just hard in the "now," sometimes, isn't it?  [/quote]

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