Any parents out there NOT hung up on CES?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if it helps, I would say that CES is not about “getting ahead” so much as solving an existing problem. So if your child is feeling kind of desperate in school and even the teachers agree that their time is largely wasted all day, then the CES helps that kid have a schoolday where they actually get to learn something. While they are learning a lot about writing, they are really learning how to learn at school and sometimes, for the first time, how to deal with challenge and failure so that when they get to harder classes they will understand how to work hard and persist to get the work done well.

Your child may need some enrichment or not... you know your kid. If you are doing writing classes in the summer, I think you can rest assured that your child will be well prepared for the tougher classes of high school one day. But if you think of CES as basically a kind of special ed to help some kids learn how to be well-adjusted students and how to BE normal, happy kids, it might give you less anxiety about how your child might be missing something.

That said, I think most of us would love to see some of the enrichments in CES brought into the entire school curriculum. Some schools do have an enriched ELA program and that, along with compacted math, can do a lot for bright kids.

Um, okay. If it makes you feel better. My child is a well-adjusted, normal, happy kid who loved his home school and he's not the only one.
There is a subset of kids who weren't doing well at their home schools and it's great they have somewhere to go but characterizing the CESes a place for misfits is really weird of you PP.

No, it's perfectly true. I'm not the PP who wrote that, but I have children who do need a more "interesting" experience in school - one has learning disabilities too and ended up in a different program, and the other is approximately normal but still doesn't feel quite right in her school.

There is no shame in having what some describe as special needs, that's really what we're telling you. Being gifted is a type of special needs.

firstly, these kids are not necessarily gifted. The hardworking ones with good work ethics will do fine. The truly gifted ones will thrive, but there are very very few if any. The rest will barely float by. You people have such strange concepts of these special programs. I have a kid in the program who does well and works hard but I will by far ever consider him or his friends “gifted”.

I did not say all the kids were like this. The other PP and I were explaining to you why some students really need the magnets. The difference in outlook and cognitive skill between the 99.0th percentile child and the 99.5th percentile child is huge. Please stop trying to fight this. It's true.

I am the other PP and I didn’t really mean to paint the CES kids as misfits. Sorry that it read that way. My child is in CES and was super happy socially, but he had never had to really TRY to get something right before this program. So the thing he is learning is what everyone gets to learn... how to work hard to get better. I don’t think that the CES is giving him some kind of advantage over other kids. That is what I meant.