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This sounds like a terrible reason to choose a therapeutic boarding school. Your son is not in a race. His health is monumentally more important than losing a year or two of academics.</p>
<p>I imagine the reason why Answers for Parents is free is that it is paid by the institutions it represents–which means it will only consider those institutions when making a recommendation, even if none is ideal. Truly a “you get what you pay for” situation.</p>