Anonymous
11/29/2023 07:32
Subject: Does NCS generally honor accommodation recommendations based on a neuropsych exam?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The truth is that there is no “generally”. These are handled case-by-case at all the top 3/5/7 schools, with the decision based on the specific student and the specific requested accommodations.
And always with the option to counsel out the student should the school decide not to accommodate.
I know of cases where a different school (not Cathedral) counseled the student out and cited the neuropsych analysis as the reason for doing so. This varies by school, and maybe by student, but the sword has 2 edges…
Yes This is true if the school cannot accommodate the recommendations made by the psychologist the school can counsel them out.
Private schools are not required to provide any accommodations to any student. The decision is totally at the school’s discretion. This is another difference from public schools, which are required to provide an “appropriate” education to all students. Private schools also have complete discretion about granting some accommodations to student A but not granting them to student B.
Anonymous
11/28/2023 13:49
Subject: Does NCS generally honor accommodation recommendations based on a neuropsych exam?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The truth is that there is no “generally”. These are handled case-by-case at all the top 3/5/7 schools, with the decision based on the specific student and the specific requested accommodations.
And always with the option to counsel out the student should the school decide not to accommodate.
I know of cases where a different school (not Cathedral) counseled the student out and cited the neuropsych analysis as the reason for doing so. This varies by school, and maybe by student, but the sword has 2 edges…
Presumably they were counseled out because they couldn't meet the student's needs -- and the student would have had those needs with or without the neuropsych.
Any evaluation necessarily is partly subjective. If one tried to game the system, and an evaluator was trying to please parents footing the bill, then an evaluator might lean one direction or another in the writeup. So “could not meet” given the writeup sometimes might be different than “could not meet” the child’s needs.