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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it worth paying $40k just to be admitted but not meet the learning needs of your child?  [/quote]

I think the point is that these schools could meet the learning needs of the children if they wanted to do so but instead choose to keep them out. Personally I think as neurodiversity research picks up, these schools and their policies will be looked at in the same way that other discrimination policies are. They are on the wrong side of history.[/quote]

That's wrong.  Private schools are inclined to like children and *want* to educate kids; that why they exist.  But if what they offer is small class-sizes and lots of attention from teachers, then how does that work if the teacher has to spend a significant amount of extra time with a handful of students?  How does that work for the other kids?

The private schools don't have the money to have the same level of special needs staffing.  I know that sounds crazy since $40,000 is a ton of money.  But running a school costs a lot, with teacher salaries being the biggest part.

I recognize it's frustrating, but the schools are not trying to be mean, that just truly cannot serve a wide range of LDs well.[/quote]

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