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[quote=Anonymous]My CES kid didn't really make strong friendships at her new school until later in 4th, and more so in 5th. She didn't really hang out with the CES kids from her old school, as she'd already started to have less in common with them in 3rd grade, but it took a while for her to really find her tribe in 4th. She mainly hung out with one best friend still at her old school, at first, as well as friends from extracurriculars.

Especially early on, she had some rough days on the playground where she felt like certain groupings of kids weren't really welcoming, even though individually she considered them friends. Eventually she found a few she could reliably count on, and started getting together with them out outside of school. In 5th grade, they had some projects they worked on with the non-CES kids, and she made a few friends among that group as well. She did find that a lot of the CES kids were really heavily scheduled in the afternoons and on weekends, which made getting together pretty tough. That's not unique to CES kids, but we did notice it a bit more, perhaps because the increased homework exacerbated the tight schedules.

She's now in 6th at a MS magnet, and many of the the kids zoned for it were also zoned for her CES elementary, so she does already have some non-magnet friends. She's still chatting and getting together regularly with old friends from her home school and CES, as well as friends from other activities. So far this year, the kids she's gotten together with outside of school  have all been at other middle schools. She's got lots of buddies at school, both magnet and non-magnet, but other than studying by Google hangout or school-related texting, that's about it. She's definitely still clung to old friends outside of school. [/quote]

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