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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regardless of their marketing rhetoric, privates are not required to accommodate ND students. So they will until they won’t and then counsel you out. You are always there on sufferance. If you can swallow that and shield your kid from it, private can be great. But make no mistake. [/quote]

There are limits to how much they are required to accommodate ND students, but they do have a legal responsibility to provide reasonable accommodations.  They generally do not have to provide services that would be on an IEP, but most 504 accommodations fall within "reasonable accommodations" that a school must provide under federal law.

I will definitely admit that enforcing that can be hard--no one wants to be in a situation where you are getting lawyers involved to make a school provide accommodations.  A school that doesn't *want* to accommodate my kid probably isn't going to be a great environment for her even if I can force them to do it on paper.  But it's important to keep in mind that private schools are not actually off the hook for disability accommodations.

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