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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell seems to have a few kids like yours, OP, and no one (kids or parents) seems to mind in the least. I'm not sure where some of the posters here get off wondering if your child is really autistic or saying some parents will keep their kids away. I'm not saying that that might not be the case, but I certainly don't think when people post on this site they should be prepared to get snarked at just for asking a question or contributing.

My son has ADD and is a senior at SFS this year (there are quite a few boys in this class with this issue so I am not afraid of outing him with this post!) There is a girl in his class who he says has been very vocal about having severe autism when she was young (I guess she went silent for a few years) and has stood up in Quaker meeting to talk about it and even wrote a few pieces in the school paper.[b] She is extremely well liked, and when she had a birthday party a few years back, my son and virtually the entire class  of 125 kids minus a handful away for the summer went.[/b] I know that my son says she's very smart from the few classes they had taken together so I don't know if that's why Sidwell didn't think her issues would interfere. But he also says she isn't a party kid as much as a lot of his friends in the class and is in the library a lot, so maybe she suffers from some of the same shyness as your child. Anyway, I would give Sidwell a shot. My son did receive a little help with organization his first few years (really didn't amount to much help so he stopped) but he gets extra time for testing which has helped, and Sidwell has been great about that. Good luck![/quote]

That's great to hear that Sidwell took a chance on this girl. I wonder how much the parents told them at admissions.

But I'm stuck on the idea that the girl -- or anyone -- had a birthday party for 125 kids. Is that common at Sidwell?[/quote]

Yes. I am the mother/PP of the senior boy mentioned above.  Almost every kid in his class that had a 16th birthday party (quite a few did) invited the entire class, and most were held at private venues.  But this class is unique I think.  Every year there are all class parties for Halloween or all-class after parties for dances like  this year's Homecoming. It's always the same kids hosting the after parties that invite everyone - the parents turn the other way, and frankly I think they are nuts.  Sidwell is the opposite of the Helicopter parent type of environment! My other child who graduated from Sidwell a few years back was part of a class always fighting with each other, and I don't remember many all-inclusive parties!

I'm not sure how much the girl's parents told the school, but she also received some organizational help her first year like my son, so they obviously knew she had some issues.  I know that she doesn't get extra time for tests like my son does - there's a pretty small group for that. But the school has been pretty laid back about kids who need extra time. Sidwell is not a S/N school by any stretch, but if I even had to pose the question that the OP did, I would think there's more concern there than is coming across.[/quote]

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