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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drives me crazy that privates only want perfect kids![/quote]

They just don’t have the resources to deal with learning and behavioral issues.[/quote]

Some don’t.  Some could but choose not to, regardless of all the DEI rhetoric on their web pages.[/quote]

That isn’t what I think of when I hear DEI.  I think of racial, ethnic and gender diversity, not behavioral and learning issues.[/quote]

Learning differences are also diversity, are they not? Why the focus on what people [i]look [/i]like? If the school can handle a child whose home language is not English, surely they can handle a child who needs quiet test-taking time. They just choose not to. And no, I'm not the bitter mother of a LD child. Just can see through the bs.[/quote]

St. Andrew's spews a lot of this bs, but they don't deliver.  And yes, I am a parent of a lower school child at SAES.[/quote]
I am an SAES parent.  Accepting and accommodating certain learning differences is something SAES can and does do as do many schools.  But there is a point at which the child’s needs are beyond the typical.  My other child is at a K-8.  A child was admitted in 5th grade and he had been homeschooled a bit due to COVID and the fact that he had some hearing lose (therefore online schooling had been bad or something like that).  The school was ready and set to work with the hearing loss.  But lo and behold he has high functioning autism, adhd, and OCD.  The school is struggling to handle it and the parents don’t think the many accommodations he is getting are enough.  So I don’t know what you experienced at SAES but the schools can only do so much for one child.  Children with significant special needs (and yes I think Hearing loss, OCD, adhd and high functioning autism is significant special needs) should be in a special needs school or take advantage of the services provided in public school.  
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