Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 17:59     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lab


+1. We have loved it for our DS, who sounds exactly like OP's kid.


Thanks, do you think they provide enough challenge for your son's strengths? How's the peer group? Favorite things about the school? Any downsides other than the price?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 17:50     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:Lab


+1. We have loved it for our DS, who sounds exactly like OP's kid.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 17:18     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at Templeton? I do not have personal experience but my kid has some good friends there who are thriving.

Templeton doesn't have staff who understand learning disabilities, accommodations, or how to deliver specialized instruction. But it is a small school with flexibility and teachers who can give lots of individualized attention so it could be an option for you OP.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 17:15     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought St. Andrews no longer was accepting kids who needed learning supports?

This is absolutely not true. But if a student needs more than things like extra time, preferential seating, etc, then parents need to be prepared to pay for support outside of school.

In the past, St. Andrew's supported mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) whose needs went beyond extra time and preferential seating. PPs are just confused, and are asking because the school has shifted. Kids who would have been accepted in the past aren't accepted today.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 15:06     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Check out DeMatha and ask about their Academic Support Center. It's pretty great.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 14:47     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Both actually.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 14:09     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
You were irritated that your kid didn't get into a private school that has become rather competitive? Or you were irritated because you thought being full pay would compensate for other areas where maybe their application wasn't the strongest?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 13:15     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bullis


Bullis is a great school, but we had two friends whose kids left because Bullis didn’t have the support needed in HS.


My DS didn't get into the HS - he has a mild LD, and we were irritated/disappointed that a great full pay student was never pulled from the WL.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 12:47     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:Bullis


Bullis is a great school, but we had two friends whose kids left because Bullis didn’t have the support needed in HS.
Anonymous
Post 09/07/2025 20:37     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:I thought St. Andrews no longer was accepting kids who needed learning supports?

This is absolutely not true. But if a student needs more than things like extra time, preferential seating, etc, then parents need to be prepared to pay for support outside of school.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 15:07     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought St. Andrews no longer was accepting kids who needed learning supports?



St. Andrew's teachers don't know how to deal with high IQ students with ADHD.

Not true...my son falls into this category and is thriving. Also they deal well with twice excepetional according to a friend. Most kids are more mainstream but the teachers know how to support so much so that my son who switched from another school no longer needs any outside support.


Right … these are “SN” that miraculously disappear, not actual SN. My kid who is visibly autistic (stims, some other mannerisms) would never get accepted even though he needs few academic supports. But be a regular kid with “ADHD”, sure why not.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 15:04     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought St. Andrews no longer was accepting kids who needed learning supports?



St. Andrew's teachers don't know how to deal with high IQ students with ADHD.

Not true...my son falls into this category and is thriving. Also they deal well with twice excepetional according to a friend. Most kids are more mainstream but the teachers know how to support so much so that my son who switched from another school no longer needs any outside support.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 14:24     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Have you looked at Templeton? I do not have personal experience but my kid has some good friends there who are thriving.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 10:23     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought St. Andrews no longer was accepting kids who needed learning supports?



St. Andrew's teachers don't know how to deal with high IQ students with ADHD.


In what way? Isn’t it your job to give your ADHD kid the academic supports they need?

NP. You mean our job as parents? Yes, it’s our job to find a school that can both appropriately support the learning difference AND challenge the high intelligence of our 2e children. It sounds like St. Andrews is not that school.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2025 09:52     Subject: schools for 9th that support mild learning disabilities (dyslexia and ADHD) and explicitly teach writing??? MD or DC
Anonymous wrote:I thought St. Andrews no longer was accepting kids who needed learning supports?


This is what I was told as well last year during admission process. But odd because they have the brain learning center to train teachers but don’t want to implement themselves for own students.