Talk to me about turning down a spot in a regional CES

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Totally different perspective but just FYI we are at an elementary school as our home school that also houses CES. My child constantly tells me that at recess the kids are all "I'm in the gifted program-I'm smarter than you". Which is especially hilarious since it was basically 100% lottery last year so yeah. My kid was in the lottery too. But now I'm
So glad we didn't get it. Clearly the environment is toxic and unkind. My younger child has an even better chance of getting In next year and we will turn it down for sure.

Clearly.

And your reaction is rational for sure.

Never heard of this at DC's CES. I wonder if those particular kids are acting this way because it was a lottery, that those kids are insecure and feel like they somehow "made it" because they got a spot. Pre-lottery the environment was actually really supportive IMO but it could be because this is a CES housed in a school that is already very high performing so the kids were probably pretty interchangeable in terms of performance between the CES and non CES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Totally different perspective but just FYI we are at an elementary school as our home school that also houses CES. My child constantly tells me that at recess the kids are all "I'm in the gifted program-I'm smarter than you". Which is especially hilarious since it was basically 100% lottery last year so yeah. My kid was in the lottery too. But now I'm
So glad we didn't get it. Clearly the environment is toxic and unkind. My younger child has an even better chance of getting In next year and we will turn it down for sure.

Clearly.

And your reaction is rational for sure.

Never heard of this at DC's CES. I wonder if those particular kids are acting this way because it was a lottery, that those kids are insecure and feel like they somehow "made it" because they got a spot. Pre-lottery the environment was actually really supportive IMO but it could be because this is a CES housed in a school that is already very high performing so the kids were probably pretty interchangeable in terms of performance between the CES and non CES.

I asked my kid about this and she said that at one point earlier in the year their teacher had talked to the class about this, because apparently someone or some kids had been telling the other kids at lunch they were special because they were in the CES. My kid had never heard anything like that and is envious of the non CES kids because they get to be kids with the heavy workload.

[Anonymous]

I sent my kid to a CES, and he is now at his home middle school after being placed in the middle school magnet pools, but not receiving a spot. While the CES experience was overall good, it was a lot of work, with a lot of overlapping deadlines. I guess not too much unlike how middle school has been so far. The CES curriculum was writing-intensive, and while I don’t have a basis to compare it to 4th and 5th grade at the home school, being on the other side of it, I’m not sure it made that much of a difference for where my kid is at now academically. There seems to be a lot of writing in the enriched humanities classes in 6th grade. Socially, I think my kid wishes he’d stayed at the home elementary school. Bottom line, I guess I don’t view the CES as a game changer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sent my kid to a CES, and he is now at his home middle school after being placed in the middle school magnet pools, but not receiving a spot. While the CES experience was overall good, it was a lot of work, with a lot of overlapping deadlines. I guess not too much unlike how middle school has been so far. The CES curriculum was writing-intensive, and while I don’t have a basis to compare it to 4th and 5th grade at the home school, being on the other side of it, I’m not sure it made that much of a difference for where my kid is at now academically. There seems to be a lot of writing in the enriched humanities classes in 6th grade. Socially, I think my kid wishes he’d stayed at the home elementary school. Bottom line, I guess I don’t view the CES as a game changer.

Thanks!