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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ what’s wrong with it? [/quote]

Not that poster, but here is what I hear from some families:

*Disrupted family schedules because of the bus.
*Tension between students and parents over the workload at home.
*Unfairness to other kids in the family who lose parental attention or have to adjust their schedule.[/quote]

NP here.  I have not heard that in my 15 years as a magnet teacher.  Most parents are aware of the time committment and they consider themselves a partner in their child's education. Most students are happy within the program, even if some have to work harder to catch up with some of their peers.  The truth is that these children are able to do the work and they thrive also because of a very like-ability cohort.

- Magnet teacher.[/quote]

We turned down CES due to the amount of endless projects.   Yes, this is going much deeper into the material, [b]but often projects seem like more work from parents than for students[/b].   Honestly, is very clear when parents have done most of the work.

Our daughter is capable of doing the work, but she is already extremely busy with a multitude of language, music, and dance programs.   She has at least 10 hours of work from her language program each week already.[/quote]

I think you meant to say "the projects seemed like more work for me than my daughter." I am glad you realized it before sending her to the program and decided against it.

For us it was different - DC used to hate going to the home school and when a choice had to be made between CES (then HGC) and home school, DC did not hesitate to choose the center program. We never would help with projects and DC loved the program in spite of not getting the best of grades. (DC used to be utterly bored at home school and got the best grades.) Our attitude was that if we had to help with the projects, DC should not be going to the center program.

All kids are not like your daughter - you do you, I am glad things worked out for you.[/quote]

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