Stigma, LD, and Privileged Habitus in an Urban Setting
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The study described here is the result of ethnography, centered on two privileged parents (Lawrence and Elizabeth), living in a relatively affluent neighborhood of Boston. They have two children: Simon, 14 years old, who is attending his last year at the Samuel Griffin School (heretofore referred to as Griffin), a private school for children with learning disabilities (LD), where I worked for 2 ½ years, and Elliott, 12 years-old, who attends Ahavat Chesed (hereafter referred to as Chesed), a mainstream private Jewish school. Simon has been diagnosed with dyslexia (a form of LD) and originally attended Chesed through second grade but has attended Griffin for these last six years. Lawrence and Elizabeth’s relative privilege is an important focus of this research, as is their experience of their son’s LD. It is the interaction of these two features of their experience that provides the impetus for and represents a major focus of this study. The emphasis is on the tension between these parents’ efforts to reproduce their privilege through their son’s education and the obstacles they face as a result of their son’s academic failure.