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[quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on the kid. I've had two kids go through CES. We moved to MoCo when the older one started third grade; she liked her teacher but was bored silly. I think maybe only 1 other kid from her ES went to the CES and she wasn't friends with him anyway, so she had to start over from scratch but jumped right in with both feet. She is now at a magnet MS and her closest friends are those that she knew from CES, but she has made more friends in MS.

My younger girl started at her ES in K so she had 4 years to develop a group of neighborhood friends before she went to CES. Her friends are probably half and half now, but it's a lot easier to get together with the neighborhood friends for playdates and other social events, so that's where the majority of her outside socializing is done.

It is harder to maintain the CES friendships when they go off to middle school if they're not neighborhood friends, so I think my younger daughter will have the easier time of it next year whether she goes to home MS or magnet MS. And then there's HS -- my older daughter is experiencing significant social anxiety at having to start all over again in HS since almost all of her friends are CES/MS friends. I think overall it's great to maintain that base of neighborhood friends so that when your kid transitions to MS/HS there's at least a home base to start from even if they develop friendships in completely different directions.[/quote]

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