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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.
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Hale, C. (2014). Stigma, Ld, and Privileged Habitus in an Urban Setting. In: Tobin, K., Shady, A. (eds) Transforming Urban Education. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-563-2_8
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