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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if it helps, I would say that CES is not about “getting ahead” so much as solving an existing problem. So if your child is feeling kind of desperate in school and even the teachers agree that their time is largely wasted all day, then the CES helps that kid have a schoolday where they actually get to learn something. While they are learning a lot about writing, they are really learning how to learn at school and sometimes, for the first time, how to deal with challenge and failure so that when they get to harder classes they will understand how to work hard and persist to get the work done well.

Your child may need some enrichment or not... you know your kid. If you are doing writing classes in the summer, I think you can rest assured that your child will be well prepared for the tougher classes of high school one day. But if you think of CES as basically a kind of special ed to help some kids learn how to be well-adjusted students and how to BE normal, happy kids, it might give you less anxiety about how your child might be missing something.

That said, I think most of us would love to see some of the enrichments in CES brought into the entire school curriculum. Some schools do have an enriched ELA program and that, along with compacted math, can do a lot for bright kids.[/quote]

Um, okay. If it makes you feel better. My child is a well-adjusted, normal, happy kid who loved his home school and he's not the only one.
There is a subset of kids who weren't doing well at their home schools and it's great they have somewhere to go but characterizing the CESes a place for misfits is really weird of you PP.[/quote]

No, it's perfectly true. I'm not the PP who wrote that, but I have children who do need a more "interesting" experience in school - one has learning disabilities too and ended up in a different program, and the other is approximately normal but still doesn't feel quite right in her school.

There is no shame in having what some describe as special needs, that's really what we're telling you. Being gifted is a type of special needs.
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