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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have been in OP's shoes. Never felt need to sue. Felt upset of course. Have two kids one with more needs than the other. The one with just ADHD is doing well at a K-8. They are very supportive as they see the child's potential. A lot of schools don't realize that many of these ADHD kids will mature into great, interesting,  highly successful adults (likely got ADHD from their highly successful parents who also have adhd). [b]Many of these private schools say that they see the potential in each child and want to nurture it, but they really don't.[/b] It does take a lot more energy to tame the wild horse that will become a stallion. We work with the school and are supportive of them but suing them is ridiculous and yes will burn bridges when you  apply out![/quote]
For a lot of theses schools, it's that they don't have sufficient faculty with expertise working with neurodivergent kids. It's not that they don't want to, it's that they don't have the resources to meet the needs of every child, and that's OK. [/quote]

It is ok not to meet the needs of every student -- that's the essence of private school -- but many could do more without increased resources. For example, one accomodation that my child was denied in middle school was t[b]o have instructions/writing prompts in a bulleted list instead of a long paragraph. That wouldn't have taken any additional effort.[/b][/quote]
According to whom? You, the parent? Or according to the teacher? In MS at a top private students need to be able to read long paragraphs and decipher instructions. This is a basic reading comprehension learning outcome that is entirely appropriate for MS students. [/quote]

My kid is autistic and this was one recommendation that came out of her neuropsych. Perhaps you can argue that a school shouldn't need to accommodate someone whose disability requires bullet points for greater comprehension (actually, it was to help her track whether she had completed all parts of the assignment). But you can't argue that doing so requires excessive resources.

I get it, part of why families seek out private schools is because they don't want to have to think about students with different needs. That's why we left the school instead of suing. But it's a values choice, not a resource choice.[/quote]
If the MS child must have a teacher track whether or not all parts of an assignment have been completed, and this is done regularly, yes, this can become excessive. If the teacher must spend an hour every week just on one child to track completion for multiple assignments, this comes out to a lot of hours, easiluy 20+ hours over the course of a year. And this has to be done for multiple classes? Can you imagine if your child was not the only one with accommodations, but one of, say, five children who need special instructions written out? 
You are not understanding how this adds up from a teacher's perspective, you are choosing to see this only from the perspective of your family. That is why you don't see how your requests do not add up to "excessive" resources. It does. It adds up to excessive time.[/quote]

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