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The reality is that most parents rationalize that CES isn't useful or the right fit for their child, because they fear or know their child has very little chance of getting in, and have to protect their parental ego.

If they knew their child was getting in, and what the program entailed compared to the regular 4/5, most of them would be happy to let their child go to a CES.
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You nailed it.[/quote]
I don't think you nailed it but I will say I would have shared this opinion till I my son got accepted to the program.  Now that he is in the program I really decided no way I would have wanted my next son to go.[/quote]

Another poster here.  I have to agree with the poster from above.  I have a DD at a CES that has a heavy workload and lots of homework/projects.  Kids move to fast from project to project.  While it might benefit a small subset of the kids, the rest seem to do it just to survive, and another subset cannot keep up.  Although DD writes a lot more just because there is more assignments, I don't feel like she has drastically improved on her creative writing skills.  From what I am told by DD and her peers, many of the kids have learned to glance and look for information but there is lack of deep learning and reading of the text.  Perhaps it is due to the speed of the workload.   While it is a great program meant for a selective few who have good work ethic, we would not be interested in sending our younger child to the program because we see gaps that could be missed in their learning.  Don't get me wrong, there are definitely pros to the CES, but nothing so drastic that a good home school and some targeted enrichment can't match!  If this program was for 4+ years, then it would be more worthwhile to uproot a child who is happy at their homeschool.  However, for 2 precious years at this stage in their childhood, I would say it's not worth it.[/quote]

It depends on the kid.  It is a lot of work, and if your child is not organized or disciplined (or not motivated), or isn't willing to work on those skills, it's going to be a slog.  My sense is that the time and organization demands that most kids face in middle school get filtered down to kids in the CES programs, at least starting in the 2nd half of 4th grade.  We've been very fortunate in that the CES program has been great for our DC in many ways, but there have been some rough patches because it's far more rigorous than the home school (which seemed, at times, to be just going through the motions).[/quote]

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