The Belmont Voice

When her daughter Ruby started school, Andrea Campbell saw right away that Ruby struggled to keep pace with her classmates in reading, spelling, and math. “Even in preschool, it was very clear to me that she was going to have a learning disability,” Campbell said. Ruby was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia. By the end of first grade, Campbell was told her daughter was too far behind to stay in the general education classroom. Unable to reasonably afford sending Ruby to a local private school, Campbell agreed to have her daughter placed in the Lexington, Arlington, Burlington, Bedford, and Belmont (LABBB) Educational Collaborative. Though LABBB has several programs housed in Belmont schools, the Collaborative is considered an out-of-district program.