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[quote=Anonymous]So much of this depends on the kid and the school, of course.  There are kids who will do great anywhere, which is why you will see folks saying that their child is thriving even in a high needs public school - because that's a kid who would thrive pretty much anywhere.

Then there are kids who need something different.  The problem I see is that sometimes the "something different" is too different.

One of my kids is in a small progressive private and the other day I was in the 3rd grade classroom.  There were kids who STILL struggled to write their names legibly.

This is not a school known for taking kids with learning differences, just a place where they let kids basically set their own timeline and curriculum.

A third grader that can't write their own name is not a thing I can imagine happening at a public school (or at least the public schools DCUM parents use), because those kids would be referred for services and given support to get up to grade level.  But this school takes such a laizzez-faire approach of letting "kids be kids" that I wonder if some of these kids will ever achieve their potential. [/quote]

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