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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it stunning OP sees this as an opportunity to punish the child instead of helping the child get the support they need.[/quote]

"Punish," my rear end. OP is not going to lie and blow smoke up the school's skirt about how great the kid is and how they should want him when it's untrue. It's called ethics. Try it sometime.[/quote]

I’m not OP and have only worked in private schools, but I can say that on occasions when we have “counselled out” students for behavior or poor academic performance or special needs we can’t/don’t have the resources to support, I have been directed and required by admin to actually lie.  Admin just wants the kid gone with as little fuss as possible, and that means fobbing him off on another private school by underplaying the issues.  I’ll go so far as to say that in a few cases, the other schools had no idea that the kid was required to leave, and our admin openly supported the parents’ choice to misrepresent the departure as their “choice.”

Not sure how it works in public, but if admin is similar, I can see that OP might not be able to be 100% truthful.  So your fears that the child will be “punished” are baseless.  [/quote]

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