I have a 7 year old with Asperger's. We were in Sevier County TN when he was diagnosed with autism. We were set to get into Pre-K with him but got booted. I was told it was due to us making too much money. A little mexican kid got his spot. All of this was on the down low of course. We immediately started looking for other options. We looked into the best public school system in east TN. We went and talked with them and they told us right away if we moved there he would be accepted due to the diagnosis. We sold our home and moved about 50 miles west. Best thing we ever did for him. He excelled in the program they had for the 2 years he attended prior to moving up.
The reason I was told he didn't get the spot in Sevier County was that our income put them to where they wouldn't get federal money for having a low income kid in the program. I don't know how much truth there was to it and I wasn't going to stick around and make him suffer to find out. The school system we moved to was in Oak Ridge and was a city school... You had to live inside the city limits to attend this school system. Taxes were crazy high but they dumped that money into the school system for the families that worked at the government facility there. My taxes were 4 times as much on my home there and they were valued at the roughly the same.
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