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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its a weird CES. Many parents and students complain about the amount of work but from what I can tell the workload is on par or even less than other CES programs in other clusters.  The kids don't all seem CES material and I'm not talking about poor AA or hispanic families but the run of the mill type white families. I get the impression that kids in other CES programs are better because they are much more competitive with so many high fliers in the areas and are better fits for an actual high flier. Oak View has more basic above average type kids but not really the gifted type students. There seem to be plenty of kids at Oak View whose parents don't want them with the general population at their school.  These kids don't really want to do the work. [/quote]

There are a lot of pretty bold statements in this post, suggesting someone who claims to have intimate knowledge not only of Oak View, but of "other" CES programs. While it is possible that one family would have kids in separate CES programs, maybe Pine Crest and Oak View back when both had kids from the same cluster, I'm wondering why PP seems so confident in his/her assertions.

As a parent who has sent two kids through the CES program, none of what PP says rings true for me. I've never heard any parent or student complain about the workload. I've heard people acknowledge that it is a step up from 3rd grade, but haven't heard complaints. I don't have the impression the work load is LESS, just that folks aren't complaining. I also have never heard an Oak View CES parent complain about the home school. Kids come from a pretty broad mix of elementary schools, with widely varying demographics, but in my multiple years in the school have not heard anyone even hint about "those kids" at the home school.

For what it is worth, Oak View kids do well in magnet middle school placements and seem well-adjusted and hard working in my experience. I won't say that every single kid appears to be a super genius, but it seems to have a pretty normal mix of off-the-charts bright kids on one hand, and super motivated and hard-working kids on the other. I doubt this is much different than any other program. [/quote]

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