I know its true about both yeshivas accepting public school kids because chicago has a fund that allows public school kids who are shomer shabbos to transfer to jewish day schools without paying tuition. The only reason I was hesitant to go to a Jewish high school initially was the resource program. So, I spent a while looking into all the girls schools I knew of until I found one later on that worked. Since chicago has this wonderful tuition program, that means that there are people who have done it in yeshivas, and get all the assistance they need. It might be harder academically, but the religious schools, from my experience are more understanding than, say solomon schechter or CJHS (in fact many of those families are now sending to hillel torah or arie crown). No child should have to go to public school simply because they are learning disabled, the public schools might offer secular academic support, but the social scene is awful and I know people who were stuck in social skill groups in public school because the schools did not understand that the person was religious and was being teased because they were frum. Yet, these people outside of school were the life of the party among their frum friends. A Jewish child should never have to go through that.
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