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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it speaks really poorly of the school that they dont realize that autism and 'social, emotional' challenge are MASSIVELY widespread now. In my kids class at mainstream private, 50% of the kids have some kind of social emotional challenge and therapy. or more. so idk where ANY school gets off thinking they can get away with not supporting that. it's not something you can opt out of in 2023.[/quote]

Do you understand there are parents of student with only LD who don't want the focus to be on social-emotional and behavioral challenges and time and effort being spent away from remediating reading, writing, spelling, and other ACADEMIC issues? Tuition is around $50,000. For that amount of money many parents of students with only LD's want the school to focus on academics only to give their kid a fighting chance to get to grade level. So actually it is something the school can opt out of because supporting students whose main needs are social, emotional, and/or behavioral is NOT the purpose of the school.

My cousin has a child at McLean and it is such a big sacrifice. Their local public school was no help even though their child had an IEP and couldn't read. He was in 4th grade and we went to a restaurant and he couldn't read the children's menu.  It was just unfortunate luck that their child's special education teacher also oversaw a few students with social, emotional, and behavioral needs that took up almost all the special education teacher's time. Consistently when his turn to get reading help the special ed teacher was called away to deal with another special education student with behavioral, social, and emotional needs. My cousin is now thankful that that is not the focus of the school. [/quote]

I didn’t realize McLean is just for students with LDs. Is it all remedial?

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No. My cousin's child excels in math and has great listening comprehension and vocabulary. Other students are inattentive and need a smaller class size but are at or above grade level. [/quote]

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