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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][snip]My greatest regret is not understanding when my child’s school was DONE with them and they made DC miserable to force us to pull them.

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OP here -- what finally tipped you off that your child's school was DONE with them?

I feel like I'm not at that point yet.  Since we get the daily progress reports, I feel like if they started being negative every day, maybe I'd be at that point.  But his daily reports are still positive far more often than not.  So I think we're still in the realm of "if you do what we ask, we will continue to work with you."

I just don't want the school to start treating my son badly.  He's actually a very positive, optimistic, enthusiastic student and loves being at school.  I don't want them to squelch that.[/quote]

In retrospect though they had made up their minds within a couple months and probably around the first time they communicated with us. As you will find out, if there are issues, it takes time to set up evaluation and remediation (and we threw $$ at everything and private paid so I really doubt we could have moved faster) and they just kept implying we were dragging our feet and our child was this big problem and why had we not had this evaluation within a month etc. We finally sent in an observer who noted that more than once multiple children would be doing something minimally against rules (like talking too much during a group lesson) and my child would be the only one specifically called out and in trouble. The observer told us we needed to get DC out of there right away and that was when I realized how bad things were.

In retrospect my child had stopped enjoying school around the time we first started getting observations despite having been happy and high performing at their previous placement. That’s why I  think they decided DC was a bad kid and acted accordingly around that time.

I would really pay attention to how they frame the observations. If they are worried about him as an individual they may be actually concerned. If they frame it as a problem for the classroom they may not give you much time to help him before they decide he has to go. To a certain extent I understand that- who wouldn’t want a class of easy kids and at private you can make that happen. I just wish they had been more upfront about it honestly. [/quote]

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