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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ what’s wrong with it? [/quote]

Not that poster, but here is what I hear from some families:

*Disrupted family schedules because of the bus.
*Tension between students and parents over the workload at home.
*Unfairness to other kids in the family who lose parental attention or have to adjust their schedule.[/quote]

NP here.  I have not heard that in my 15 years as a magnet teacher.  Most parents are aware of the time committment and they consider themselves a partner in their child's education. Most students are happy within the program, even if some have to work harder to catch up with some of their peers.  The truth is that these children are able to do the work and they thrive also because of a very like-ability cohort.

- Magnet teacher.[/quote]

We turned down CES due to the amount of endless projects.   Yes, this is going much deeper into the material, [b]but often projects seem like more work from parents than for students.   Honestly, is very clear when parents have done most of the work.[/b]

Our daughter is capable of doing the work, but she is already extremely busy with a multitude of language, music, and dance programs.   She has at least 10 hours of work from her language program each week already.[/quote]

WTF?? I had to respond to this.  I have a kid in the CES who just finished 5th grade.  We have not been 'doing the work'.  Are you kidding?  You have no clue how things work at the CES.  The kids at our CES put on plays at the end of the year.  ALL the work was done at school.  Writing the plays, making a set, etc.  Parents had ZERO involvement, as it should be.  The kids didn't even get together outside of class.  It. Was. Amazing.  The kids are just THAT talented.

The most we do is dig up old cardboard boxes when they need something like that.

Glad your multi-lingual daughter is spending 10 hours a week on language work.  My kid would HATE that, but LOVES the projects at the CES.  But, either way, don't disparage the work the kids do at the CES.  There are some amazing kids there who are more than capable of doing the work without parental involvement.  [/quote]

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