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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, while I value chess dad's advice, there's always stuff left out of the story like their child had a lot of outbursts at this supposedly great charter and they also spent a year at Auburn where their child did not do well at all.

I bring this up to you OP because things don't always go in one direction. With those diagnoses it's sometimes one step forward two steps back. I've been happy to hear chess dad's child is doing well at the mainstream private.[/quote]

It’s mom not dad this time.  DS had a bad 1/2 year in second grade before his ADHD was diagnosed.   Also, DS did not get along with his Sp Ed teacher in second grade and she was replaced.  So much for out bursts in elementary school.  Overall, our charter was great for prek-2 and ok for 3-5.

DS went to Auburn for a year.  A huge waste of time and money.  He certainly did not learn anything that year and I got more phone calls than I ever did at  the charter.  DS’s behavior was awful that year too.  Terrible fit.
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OP here. Where did you go from Auburn?  I'm very interested in that because I heard that once the kid is in a SN private like Auburn/KTS, it's relatively hard to transfer him/her to a mainstream private since the mainstream may not want to take a chance on a student from SN private.

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We went to Fusion which my DS loved as opposed to Auburn.  Fusion was great!  We were able to catch DS up in English: vocabulary, grammar and writing. The main reason we hated Auburn was bc the English teacher was illiterate judging by all his grammatical errors on progress reports.  He also assigned Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to 6 graders  :roll:

Back on point.  Then Fusion went to virtual learning for 1/2 the year.  After Fusion, I hired private tutors for a year to fill out DS’s holes in English and Math.  DS did great at Fusion, all As, great recommendations from his English, Math, Science  and HOS which is why DS is at the school he is now.  Took the SSAT.  We applied to a bunch of mainstream private schools and he got into all and goes to his first choice.

COVID was actually great because we had DS all caught up.  He is an academic rock star;). Excels in his top math class and is an excellent writer.  Very self motivated, neat, well organized with good time management.[/quote]

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