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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your questions are speculative at best and based on absolute misinformation and your own poorly formed conclusions.

But let me summarize what you’ve said here: Field has to take every student because they're money hungry and don't care about education, even though they turned away countless applicants and gave almost $3M in financial aid last year.  So they’re burdened with every sort of learning challenged kid (that was pretty offensive) and they fail to provide services for these special needs students because they can't afford to, even though they run surpluses each year.  And a few people are mad about this, even though Field is not a special needs school.  But mostly, they need to be true to their original mission which is to be a quirky school for quirky kids, who are actually just rich kids with learning and behavioral issues- whether or not that actually means special needs- because Kumbaya in Kalorama is what the founder and DC families really want for their kids.

For any of your previous posts to be remotely accurate, you would have to be somebody currently in admissions, student support, or the CFO.  So I’ll just call it all fiction.

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So you're not answering the two questions.

I'll go with the obvious. Yes, Field has a disproptionate number of special needs kids. And yes,  any school subject to the ADA would be in serious trouble if the school had as few dedicated resourcesfor SN kids as Field has.

And sadly, it does seem like a likely explanation for much of the concerns parents raise here about Field--from chaotic classrooms to a dumbed down curriculum.

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