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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does the MCLEAN school compare to the Commonwealth academy?[/quote]

We have friends with a son with ADHD who was asked to leave McLean.  How often does that happen?  Isn't McLean's niche ADHD?  [/quote]

Happens a lot. They only want the easy ADHD cases, not the ones where they have to put in effort.[/quote]

Whoa, a large number of kids at McLean (including mine) have ADHD, so they are clearly not anti-ADHD.  Its not a matter of "easy" or "hard."  Its a matter of whether the school is able to meet that child's needs.  ALL privates have a limit, a point beyond which they aren't serving that child, and ALL privates will ask those students to leave so they can go to a school that does meet their needs.  Its better for the students who leave, and its better for the other students in the class.  There is no school that can be everything to everyone.

We have no idea from this one line whether that child had a behavior problem or whether that child's needs were just too great.  McLean is not a SN school, it is a mainstream school open to kids with minor needs.  If the needs are too great, it isn't the school for them.[/quote]

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