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I am the PP you are asking this Q to and there is no magic buzz word that you are missing.  There is no general answer I can give you to help you understand what great local publics might be lacking for some children.  I do not wish to detail exactly what our public might be missing for our child on this forum, but ours was a very personal and child specific decision that was driven by advice from multiple teachers who knew our child well and then professionals who backed up the teacher's recommendations.  All I can say is that if you have no compelling academic or social reason to forgo your public and are looking for the magic buzz word, then you most likely don't have a child that warrants such a concern.  That doesn't mean you won't be interested in privates necessarily, it just means your child is doing great and teachers aren't concerned about any isuues....which is a great thing :).  Sorry I can't be more specific for you but I hope this helped a little.

Can you explain how a private school can better address the specific needs that all of your  "teachers and other professionals" rcommnended. I am NOT asking for you to share your DC cognitive issues, just the reason why all of his/her teachers were so sure that a private school would be better? Seems odd to me given that publics have to have an IEP mandated by law and many privates do not offer resource teachers for "LD" kids. [/quote]

Sorry, I am not trying to be difficult, but I do not wish to detail the specific issues of my child and how our specific private school has "worked" for us on this public forum.  It is too personal..but beyond that, I also don't believe that our situation will be relevant to your decision making for your child.

Since you have referenced IEPs and LD specialists, I will say that neither of these were relevant for our situation.  We would not have needed those at the public, we are not getting any special services at private and have not identified our child as being anything but another student who might thrive in their community.

If you have something specific related to your child that you are looking to answer, you might get more useful information by posting your child's specific needs in a separate thread and see what people are willing to share with you.  Good luck :)[/quote]

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