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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is accepted to Eastern, not CES kid, W feeder school.  Scores are not as good as the stats posted here.  We are surprised and confused.
He will get the two enrichment classes at home school.  Is the two hour commute each day worth it?
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If your're primarily concerned with the long bus ride, it's not worth it from what my coworker whose kid went there (from W feeder) said.  I've been hearing good things about next year's English curriculum for regular schools, and I can only imagine that the W-feeder schools will be very good at implementing it.  (It's better at providing enrichment to advanced students than old curriculum; it's also better at reaching the slower kids in the homogenized classes.)  I'm not sure how the W-feeders have been implementing the magnet-level world history class, but most people are choosing Eastern for the writing and English program, not history class.  Also, the math at Eastern is regular math, not the magnet-level math that may be available at the W-feeder if your child was not in the TPMS group.

I'm surprised that science is weak at Eastern, as when we applied to CES, we were told that science was considered part of the "humanities" and it's not unusual that kids that are good in humanities at the elementary school level are also good in math/science (at our local CES, only 1 out of 54 kids is not in the compacted math).[/quote]

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