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[quote=Anonymous]Current CCES parent here.  I think it depends a lot on your home school.  It's hard for me to compare because our home school has been piloting the enriched humanities program, so my child keeps saying his friends from the home school are doing a lot of the same things.  I think it is marginally better at the CES, but not  wildly so.  The kids are all bright, but so were most of the kids at our home school, so I haven't found the peer group to be that wildly different either.  If your home school is good and is doing differentiation at the 4-5 grade level, it might not be that much of a difference.

Also, I think it's a real negative to change peer groups TWICE in a 3 year period.  At least from our CES, almost none of the kids get into the MS with the new weighted system.  There were very few kids that went to the CES from our HS cluster (which I think is the farthest geographically from the CES, so that might be part of that), so I think there's only one of my kid's friends from CES will be going to MS with my kid.  We've put a fair amount of work into making sure  we didn't lose all the neighborhood friends over these two years, so I hope it won't be too terrible a transition.  I think the transition back to MS might be a little rougher for girls than boys because girls tend to be more "all in" on friendships at that age, and I can see a girl getting dropped from her home school friend group if she's at a different school for two years.

I think a two year program is just really not ideal.  Also, I've found it hard as a parent to get very invested in a school where my kid would only be for 2 year.  We were pretty involved in the community for our home school, but I really don't feel that way, even though I did volunteer for some stuff and go to the back to school picnic -- the problem is that the neighborhood parents all already know each other so it's slow going , and then by the time you feel like you know any of the parents or the teachers/administrators, you are done.

So those are my thoughts.  I think we're glad we did it, but I don't think it's necessarily a clear cut decision.  It's not like you're choosing between Harvard and the local community college.  [/quote]

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