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There's also more tolerance for those kids in public school parents. You know when you send your kid to a public school, you have to be willing to accept a lot of diversity. Parents who send their kids to expense privates are not good at tolerating disruptions or diversity in the student body.  They are paying for a certain type of educational experience and they are very unhappy if someone disrupts the experience.  Their lack of tolerance gets passed on to their children and it bleeds over into peer relationships.[/quote]

This resonates with me. My SN kid is in public school. A friend whose child has ADHD and dysgraphia went to a progressive, mainstream private for MS. Was counseled out at end of 8th because other parents objected to the kind and amount accommodations he was being given. The school was very wary of gaining a reputation as a SN school.

It was very hard on the child who was doing well at the school academically and socially and planned on attending that high school.[/quote]

Both of my brothers who are on the spectrum went to private schools and one did not have any friends until he went away to college while the other had only one friend.  Neither of them needed any accommodations/academic supports and were top students who went on to Ivy and equivalent colleges probably why no one thought they needed any "help".  Back in the day, no one cared about a child's emotional fit at a school.  However, I don't want the same school experience for DS with ASD/ADHD.

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