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[quote=Anonymous]The logistics are a real hassle for parents. You need to be ready and willing for two years of it. The bus ride is lively and fun, for the most part. If you can reduce it, though, your child will have more free time. It is hard to move away from friends, but if your child is on a team or other activity, keep them involved and their ties with old friends can remain. Middle school magnets are much harder to get into than elementary, and your child may reunite with old friends in middle school.

Your child may make wonderful new friends, too. Friends who keep him on his toes and make him laugh and share a different kind of wavelength. If your child is socially happy now, he is likely to find his place in the CES, too. There will be a few arrogant kids whose parents have been praising them too much. There are many kind and amazing kids. There are goofy awkward kids. PP described them so nicely! In our experience, almost all will be far better behaved and more engaged in class than homeschool. There is a lot of wit and humor and laughter.

Academics are infinitely better. There is just no comparison. None. Math is actually better, too, because they go through so much faster and have time for extra projects. The principal will try very hard to get you to stay at the home school, but they cannot give your child that kind of constant enrichment. The CES is a place where acceleration and aptitude are embraced instead of accommodated. The classmates MAKE the class... they are bright and fast and funny. The CES teachers work very hard and give lots of feedback. If your child hates to read, I would hesitate, because there is a lot of reading and most of the kids love to discuss their books together.

Online CES has been way less work than it was in school, but still some enrichment and generally livelier than my other, younger DC who is still in regular school (but going to CES next year). One kid looks forward to the Zoom meetings. The other endures them.

Congrats OP. Try it!
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