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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are similarly having difficulty deciding about CES (Chevy Chase) for our daughter.  She is very comfortable and has great friends at our home school.  She didn't even want to take the test because it might mean she would be moved to a different school, so we haven't told her yet that she was accepted.  She is very anxious in new social situations, and there is no easy way to introduce her to the new school in these crazy times.  So we are really struggling with weighing her social/emotional and academic well being right now.  [/quote]

CCES mom here.  I've got a boy, but I agree with PP that the kids are really nice, and the teachers are as well, so I think the transition into the school will likely be pretty smooth.  I think the MUCH harder transition is the transition into MS.  I have girls as well, and the MS girl social scene is really tough.  Especially in 6th grade, the girls are banded together into groups from their ES and don't seem to mix much.  The schools are really too big to encourage good social mixing, and the girls are often socially anxious so they circle the wagons on their social groups.   Of course, if she has a tight group from ES already, and they don't ditch her over the next two years, then she should be able to reintegrate without problems.  Or if she is into some activities that will give her an "in" with girls.  My older daughter does have a friend that went to a CES and then back to home school, and seems like she did fine so clearly it's not an insurmountable issue.  (he did decide not to apply to the magnet HS, though I'm not sure why.)
Note that I already posted about the social concerns with changing schools twice in 3 years....just so you don't think that there are multiple posters raising these issues.  If you have friends with older daughters at your middle school, you might want to talk to them and see what they thought about the social transitions.  [/quote]

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