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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one reason I dont want our private to cater to kids with learning differences.  Learning specialists are expensive and only work with a single or small group at a time.  They are not money well spent especially if you have kids like mine who do not need, and have never needed, a learning specialist.  People often posts about how its "wrong" or elitist for private schools to not make accommodations for kids with learning differences but the truth of the matter is that is just one more thing that raises costs.  [b]If your kid doesn't need it, its hard to stomach how much schools spend on it.[/quote][/b]

Put your kid in public then, problem solved. Oh, but wait, then all the kids needing accommodations will distract and detract from your DC's learning. Looks like you are totally screwed. It is a shame not everyone is perfect. [/quote]

First, as others have pointed out, even if your child really is “practically perfect in every way,” your child benefits from a specialist who enables classrooms to remain rigorous and fast-paced. What others haven’t pointed out is that your child also benefits by learning to work with others with different learning styles. Kind of like he will have to do, oh I don’t know, for the rest of his life.  Some of our greatest visionaries and CEO’s had learning “disabilities,” but maybe your son never wants to work at those companies? Perhaps you should write his career goals on his resume: “Seeks gainful employment with a firm comprised of members who have never struggled in school in any way and whose learning styles are identical to mine.”

Beyond that, wow—I hope nothing ever happens to you, ever. Perhaps you, or at least your child, walk around this earth and never encounter difficulties with studying, organizing, socializing, struggling with stress, achieving work-life balance, handling pressure, juggling other commitments, developing (gasp! Horror!) eye difficulties that make reading challenging, or god forbid EVER getting really sick and have to play catch up or at the very least balance physical illness and the pressure to complete work. Or maybe your child is super human and never needs help even if they develop these issues! As I mentioned, there are positive externalities—even for your child who never needs help—to having a specialist at school. Perhaps you don’t see those because you are either (a) actually in the care of such a perfect child that literally nothing might ever go wrong and even a slow-paced classroom wouldn’t mess that child up in the slightest; (b) willfully ignorant of the positive externalities that inure to your child both from having a robust classroom experience that is, in part, enabled by these specialists AND those positive externalities that inure to your child by being exposed to people with different learning styles—an exposure that will prove critical in that crazy real world that you can’t control for him and which is full with “not perfect” kids who had help and now run amazing companies; or (c) you are an insufferable person who believes that anyone who needs a slight bit of help in life is weak and unworthy of your child or your child’s school.  To borrow from a relatively recent diatribe, maybe you prefer POW’s who “don’t get captured”...much less need help.

This is not a flame as I understand it—a quick, shot-from-the-hip response aimed at abusing the original poster without delving into substance. I thought a long time about whether to respond. I delve into the substance, and the post is intended as a challenge for the PP to think about what he/she said and how short-sighted and even cruel it is.

Thus, I do intend this as a call for you (1) to open your eyes and see the myriad ways in which a school specialist helping others has positive benefits for your child both in the classroom and in preparing your child to function alongside a diverse group of learning styles; and (2) broaden your perspective and think to yourself, “Hey, wait, yeah. What if my kid needed help with something, even small, one day? I’d sure want a specialist then. So why do I wish to begrudge others the same? Is it because I only see what benefits me right this second? Is it because I haven’t thought about it? Or, and I’m not accusing you of this, but is it because you actually have bias against kids who might not learn in the same way yours does? I’m not taking a position; you’re the only one who could answer those questions.

BTW, my child is not special needs and has not needed a specialist. But have a little humility. There but for the grace of God go we. There but for the grace of God...go you. [/quote]

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