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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ADHD inattentive child graduated from Beauvoir last year and has gone on to another TT school.  It was diagnosed while at the school.  DC had been increasingly behind, and was already getting extra help at the school's suggestion.  They were great, both before and after the diagnosis, and did indicate that there were other kids in the same boat.    DC was admitted everywhere we applied, and I credit Beauvoir with keeping up the academics and working with us as we developed strategies and learned more.  Plus they were incredibly helpful in helping us find a next school that would be as great as they were.[/quote]

It is amazing to hear that a school like Beauvoir would be so helpful to you and your DC.  Our DC attends a Virginia private with nowhere near the reputation and we have found them to be very unhelpful. They just look at us like "we are so sorry it so frustrating for your child" and then they do nothing. We are thinking about medication for our DC and are reluctant to tell the school we are trying it because we think it will give them cause to say we need a different school for our DC even though we have not asked for anything special other than seating in the front of the room.[/quote]

This was not our experience.  My DC had ADHD and Beauvoir would not make accommodations of any kind and suggested another school would be better.  I hesitate to say this, but as an AA kid perhaps that is part of the reason why.  We were shocked it happened and very disappointed.  We had thought it the perfect place and turned down quite a few other schools to go there and then left with few options as they didn't tell us until after application season.[/quote]

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