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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To OP - if you are thinking of only one year, have you considered remaining where you are and doing extensive tutoring?  We are the ones that left McLean, went to FCPS, and poured the money that we would have spent at McLean (well, much less, really, but a lot) into extensive tutoring at an off-site tutoring center.  It worked very well.  DC was mainstreamed from middle school all through high school but the tutors kept her organized and on-task.  For us it worked and DC is now in college.  ADHD/Anxiety/Executive function.  [/quote]

Where did you find the tutors and how much time did this take per week? Did your DD find the extra time outside school to be onerous? [/quote]

No, it wasn't onerous because the same time would have been spent at home struggling through the homework.  We used Mary Lou Sullivan tutoring in McLean.  She had a cadre of specialist tutors working out of a townhouse in downtown McLean (she does have tutors who will come to your home but we have never used those but we have referred parents to her for that type of tutoring and it worked well).  Our pattern was to pick up DC at Langley at 2:10 and go directly to tutoring.  Most tutoring was organizational and group.  MLS tutors worked right from the FCPS blackboard and set up organizational charts and got everyone started on homework.  For special projects it was one-on-one.  I would usually pick up DC @ 6:00 so we could still have family dinner.  If it was a good night, homework would be done, DC could have dinner, rest, shower, bed (FCPS starts at 7:10).  Depending on how well DC was doing we might do the group tutoring twice a week.  The week before finals, however, we would do it daily.  The tutors did not do the work for DC but showed DC how.  Group tutoring was much less expensive than the one-on-one.

We did have to hire a special home tutor for Russian

MLS tutors also offer private prep for the SAT and ACT.  Because of learning issues, we were advised to focus on ACT only which we did.  DC did ten private sessions and scored a composite of 34, so we will do the same with next two kids.  The cost was equivalent to a group SAT prep course (and taught by a former group teacher).  703 356-0780.  Ask for Krista.
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