Poolesville HS magnet

[Anonymous]

Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

[Anonymous]

if you kid can get in and commute doesn't take 3 hours a day

[Anonymous]

Really difficult to get in. It's up there with Blair and RM.
The school environment is less divided than at the other schools because it's a whole school magnet.
Other than being really far away from the county population centers it's terrific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

Most teachers are pretty terrible and don’t give two sh*ts about the kids. All the kids self study for every subject because the teachers are notorious for doing a piss poor job of teaching or don’t put any type of effort. This is especially true with the smcs teachers. Poolesville stellar reputation is solely on thenmagnets kids and their strong work ethic and ability to study on their own….NOT on the teachers or staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

Most teachers are pretty terrible and don’t give two sh*ts about the kids. All the kids self study for every subject because the teachers are notorious for doing a piss poor job of teaching or don’t put any type of effort. This is especially true with the smcs teachers. Poolesville stellar reputation is solely on thenmagnets kids and their strong work ethic and ability to study on their own….NOT on the teachers or staff.

Not our experience. I think the teachers are terrific.

[Anonymous]

My child is a SMCS freshman at Poolesville. I’d say they have one teacher that doesn’t communicate well, but many other good teachers. Overall they are happy with their choice of Poolesville over RMIB and other lottery magnet options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

I think that if OP is looking at Blair and Poolesville they are talking about Global and not SMCS. Global is an incredible program with incredible teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

I think that if OP is looking at Blair and Poolesville they are talking about Global and not SMCS. Global is an incredible program with incredible teachers.

+1
Global was great for kid #1. SMCS teachers were mixed bag for kid #2, and I agree that they heavily relied on the kids just bring sharp and able to figure things out together.

Also the school is NOT well integrated. Each of the magnet houses are scheduled on scheduled on their own, and then the rest of the general courses added around those templates. You may think you’re taking APUSH mixed with everyone, but actually you end up in classes with kids in your same house. Also, the clubs tend to be siloed by magnet program. The main crossover between the magnet program students and the “townies” happens on the sports teams.

There are some good threads from the past (pre-Covid) that still have relevance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

Most teachers are pretty terrible and don’t give two sh*ts about the kids. All the kids self study for every subject because the teachers are notorious for doing a piss poor job of teaching or don’t put any type of effort. This is especially true with the smcs teachers. Poolesville stellar reputation is solely on thenmagnets kids and their strong work ethic and ability to study on their own….NOT on the teachers or staff.

Not our experience. I think the teachers are terrific.

👋 Hi there Poolesville teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

I think that if OP is looking at Blair and Poolesville they are talking about Global and not SMCS. Global is an incredible program with incredible teachers.

+1
Global was great for kid #1. SMCS teachers were mixed bag for kid #2, and I agree that they heavily relied on the kids just bring sharp and able to figure things out together.

Also the school is NOT well integrated. Each of the magnet houses are scheduled on scheduled on their own, and then the rest of the general courses added around those templates. You may think you’re taking APUSH mixed with everyone, but actually you end up in classes with kids in your same house. Also, the clubs tend to be siloed by magnet program. The main crossover between the magnet program students and the “townies” happens on the sports teams.

There are some good threads from the past (pre-Covid) that still have relevance.

I agree with the PP with the way the schedules are set up a smcs kid will be in apush class with all smcs kids. It would be nice if those non core classes had a mixture of different houses, so students can make friends across all house.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

Most teachers are pretty terrible and don’t give two sh*ts about the kids. All the kids self study for every subject because the teachers are notorious for doing a piss poor job of teaching or don’t put any type of effort. This is especially true with the smcs teachers. Poolesville stellar reputation is solely on thenmagnets kids and their strong work ethic and ability to study on their own….NOT on the teachers or staff.

Not our experience. I think the teachers are terrific.

👋 Hi there Poolesville teacher.

Don’t be childish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

Most teachers are pretty terrible and don’t give two sh*ts about the kids. All the kids self study for every subject because the teachers are notorious for doing a piss poor job of teaching or don’t put any type of effort. This is especially true with the smcs teachers. Poolesville stellar reputation is solely on thenmagnets kids and their strong work ethic and ability to study on their own….NOT on the teachers or staff.

Not our experience. I think the teachers are terrific.

👋 Hi there Poolesville teacher.

Hi!, Q.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

I think that if OP is looking at Blair and Poolesville they are talking about Global and not SMCS. Global is an incredible program with incredible teachers.

+1
Global was great for kid #1. SMCS teachers were mixed bag for kid #2, and I agree that they heavily relied on the kids just bring sharp and able to figure things out together.

Also the school is NOT well integrated. Each of the magnet houses are scheduled on scheduled on their own, and then the rest of the general courses added around those templates. You may think you’re taking APUSH mixed with everyone, but actually you end up in classes with kids in your same house. Also, the clubs tend to be siloed by magnet program. The main crossover between the magnet program students and the “townies” happens on the sports teams.

There are some good threads from the past (pre-Covid) that still have relevance.

I agree with the PP with the way the schedules are set up a smcs kid will be in apush class with all smcs kids. It would be nice if those non core classes had a mixture of different houses, so students can make friends across all house.

I think the SMCS experience is different than the Global and Humanities houses. DD has friends across both and most of her friends are friend with kids in both. Rarely sees SMCS kids though but maybe because they take half their classes in a different building?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of comments regarding Blair on this forum, and not much about Poolesville… Should a high achiever 8th grader consider Poolesville magnet as a possible option for high school? What’s the hype about it?

Most teachers are pretty terrible and don’t give two sh*ts about the kids. All the kids self study for every subject because the teachers are notorious for doing a piss poor job of teaching or don’t put any type of effort. This is especially true with the smcs teachers. Poolesville stellar reputation is solely on thenmagnets kids and their strong work ethic and ability to study on their own….NOT on the teachers or staff.

DC is having the exact opposite experience. The teachers seem to go the extra mile to try to make classes interesting, are really responsive to emails and for the most part they are actually nice people.