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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound nice but you’re just not the first one to face this exact predicament. And we already told you the best options.[/quote]
Exactly.  The OP also describes my kid exactly - and probably 3 other kids in his class.

I have to be honest, I don't understand the focus on mainstream privates.  You're going to pay for the privilege of sending your above-average IQ special needs kid to a place that has zero legal obligation to accommodate them and, in many cases, few resources?  If you're just looking for small class size and a school that won't turn you away as soon as you say ASD, just call around.  We did private for K and 1 - K was awesome because the teacher had a special education background; 1st was a nightmare because the teacher was old-school and refused to accommodate at all.  At least when we went to public school, they had legal obligations to the IEP and process when we got a shitty teacher again - but that's not going to get you a small class size.[/quote]

And our experience was the opposite.  K-2 in private who went out of their way no IEP to help.  Public gave us an IEP but didn't allow us to have input.  They didn't even follow their own IEP and services were in a group and had nothing to do with my child's needs or to access the curriculum.  We kept calling IEP meetings and they refused to listen to what we or the teacher had to say on what the child needed.  We gave up fighting as it wasn't worth the cost of an advocate.  Large class sizes, child got completely lost.  Teachers barely communicate and we had no idea what was going on day to day as no work was sent home so we have no idea what even grades were based on.[/quote]

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