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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you're looking at this from the wrong end.  Your mission is not to get your child into a private school in 6th grade; your mission is to give your child the best education possible to enable him to develop all his strengths and remediate his weaknesses to the greatest extent possible.  That may include admission to a mainstream private school in 6th grade and it may not, but it definitely should include specific interventions now that can only be had in the public schools via a 504 or IEP.

Give him what he needs now to develop the best he can.  Decide his future schooling in the future.  If there is a school that would not admit him based on your giving him what he needed at a young age, then it will not give him what he needs at 6th grade or 8th or 10th.  It's not like college where you do whatever you can to get into the highest-ranked school possible; you need to find the best fit possible to help your child develop optimally.

I know this because I had exactly the same worries you did when my DCs were in kindergarten.  They both went to SN private schools and it was the best thing I could have done for both of them.  They are older now and flourishing in more mainstream environments.  [/quote]

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