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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with PP. if anyone would be kind enough to share schools it could save some of us [/quote]

It happens at all schools. [/quote]

Exactly. Every private school has counseled students out. Still, it’s relatively rare.

School administrators aren’t looking for bad PR and know that parents talk to each other. Counseling out usually is a last resort after trying in-school interventions and asking families to seek outside academic or behavioral help.[/quote]

Yes, but in the manner OP describes? No warning. No counseling. No discussion. When the admissions cycle is nearly over so the child has limited opportunity to apply out? Is that normal? Are the schools all so cold?
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It's not that unusual. But having been down this road (though not actually counseled out), two things - 1) Sometimes schools bring things up obliquely or downplay them to the parents and only later do you come to realize it was actually a bigger deal than it was presented, or the school said it in "school-ese" which can be hard for parents to interpret, and 2) it's usually possible to get in somewhere else off-cycle. Generally you are looking at that point for a school that is more SN-leaning, and those schools are used to this. The current school will usually help make that work. I know several families who were counseled out of our private and they all landed at other schools.[/quote]

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