Roberto Clemente MS Magnet

[Anonymous]

Anyone whose kid is there now, or was there in the magnet program, could you please share your kid's experience. How did your kid do? Did your child like it? Did they stay or switch back?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone whose kid is there now, or was there in the magnet program, could you please share your kid's experience. How did your kid do? Did your child like it? Did they stay or switch back?

My daughter's path has been Fox Chapel, Clemente, Poolesville. Despite covid making 7th pretty much a virtual thing, she really loved RCMS. She still goes back to volunteer for Book Wars because she is *ahem* sick those days.

I'm not sure if Mr. Brown is still there, but he was/is a great principal. Very approachable. The staff seemed to be really engaged. My kid is really self-motivated so we were mostly hands off. I will say that it went by way too fast. But it did do a great job to prepare her for SMaCS at Poolesville. If you have specific questions, I can ask them to kiddo.

[Anonymous]

Thank you PP. My kid is only wait listed but I was curious about the school. My kid loves Math but not Science. Is it a good fit for someone like that?

[Anonymous]

My kid attended there years ago - local ES, Clemente magnet, IB magnet, UMD w/ merit aid, and now in medical school. MS magnets were good. the only issue i recall is kid's math teacher kept changing in 6th grade (changed 3 times in one year) so transition wasn't as smooth but it worked out

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone whose kid is there now, or was there in the magnet program, could you please share your kid's experience. How did your kid do? Did your child like it? Did they stay or switch back?

My daughter's path has been Fox Chapel, Clemente, Poolesville. Despite covid making 7th pretty much a virtual thing, she really loved RCMS. She still goes back to volunteer for Book Wars because she is *ahem* sick those days.

I'm not sure if Mr. Brown is still there, but he was/is a great principal. Very approachable. The staff seemed to be really engaged. My kid is really self-motivated so we were mostly hands off. I will say that it went by way too fast. But it did do a great job to prepare her for SMaCS at Poolesville. If you have specific questions, I can ask them to kiddo.

How about making friends? Was that easy for your child? Did they have a solid friend group, that hung out after school and on the weekends?
How about extra curriculars at the school…ie clubs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you PP. My kid is only wait listed but I was curious about the school. My kid loves Math but not Science. Is it a good fit for someone like that?

No it's not. Better for non science kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone whose kid is there now, or was there in the magnet program, could you please share your kid's experience. How did your kid do? Did your child like it? Did they stay or switch back?

My daughter's path has been Fox Chapel, Clemente, Poolesville. Despite covid making 7th pretty much a virtual thing, she really loved RCMS. She still goes back to volunteer for Book Wars because she is *ahem* sick those days.

I'm not sure if Mr. Brown is still there, but he was/is a great principal. Very approachable. The staff seemed to be really engaged. My kid is really self-motivated so we were mostly hands off. I will say that it went by way too fast. But it did do a great job to prepare her for SMaCS at Poolesville. If you have specific questions, I can ask them to kiddo.

How about making friends? Was that easy for your child? Did they have a solid friend group, that hung out after school and on the weekends?
How about extra curriculars at the school…ie clubs?

So, with all the changing of schools, my kid got pretty good at being the new kid. Sports was a big help with that. She played on a few different teams between 1st and 5th grade. Had a solid team through middle school, but ended up coaching a 10U team in 9th grade because she couldn't find a fall ball team she wanted to play with. Now plays high school ball and has made lots of new friends. I will say she has met a lot of good friends, and a few great ones, but this path can splinter that, and paths can head in different directions at any time. But it's funny how those paths crisscross randomly, and frequently. She is in a bazillion clubs... not sure where she finds the time, honestly. But she's rocking it. So I'm just dad, the Uber driver.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you PP. My kid is only wait listed but I was curious about the school. My kid loves Math but not Science. Is it a good fit for someone like that?

No it's not. Better for non science kids.

I'm confused by your reply. Is it good for strong Math kids or strong science kids?

[Anonymous]

Do the magnet kids stick together generally?

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Anonymous wrote:Do the magnet kids stick together generally?

In our experience, yes. It's just who they spend most of their time with. Sports helps build different peer groups. Or theater. Or clubs.

[Anonymous]

What clubs are there in this school to build a different peer group if your kid is not into Sports?

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Anonymous wrote:What clubs are there in this school to build a different peer group if your kid is not into Sports?

I think they had like D&D, Lego/robotics, Computer club, chess maybe? They also used to have a cool Rock Band program. Not sure if that is still active. The school probably has a more complete list.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you PP. My kid is only wait listed but I was curious about the school. My kid loves Math but not Science. Is it a good fit for someone like that?

Sorry, forgot to respond to this. DD is a math dork. Wasn't really into science going into RCMS. And I'll say the program more computer science than science science, if that makes sense. My kid could program python better than me by 8th grade. But the math really builds a great foundation for so many different paths. We've started talking about college and when I asked if she had thought about majors she said either physics or chemistry. I about fell out of my chair

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you PP. My kid is only wait listed but I was curious about the school. My kid loves Math but not Science. Is it a good fit for someone like that?

Sorry, forgot to respond to this. DD is a math dork. Wasn't really into science going into RCMS. And I'll say the program more computer science than science science, if that makes sense. My kid could program python better than me by 8th grade. But the math really builds a great foundation for so many different paths. We've started talking about college and when I asked if she had thought about majors she said either physics or chemistry. I about fell out of my chair

Thank you for your response.is python taught in 8th grade? What level of depth and level of teaching is taught to learn python? Any other languages taught?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you PP. My kid is only wait listed but I was curious about the school. My kid loves Math but not Science. Is it a good fit for someone like that?

Sorry, forgot to respond to this. DD is a math dork. Wasn't really into science going into RCMS. And I'll say the program more computer science than science science, if that makes sense. My kid could program python better than me by 8th grade. But the math really builds a great foundation for so many different paths. We've started talking about college and when I asked if she had thought about majors she said either physics or chemistry. I about fell out of my chair

Thank you for your response.is python taught in 8th grade? What level of depth and level of teaching is taught to learn python? Any other languages taught?

If I remember correctly, python was introduced in 8th grade. Prior to that it was some sort of java or C++. Object oriented programming languages. They focused on the process and flow of coding which I thought was great. I got my daughter a Raspberry Pi in elementary school, and we had had fun writing python code that would light up LEDs on a connected bread board, so she had a bit of a head start. I work in a tech field and am certainly not a full-time programmer, but I can read code. If I have to write code, I am thankful that I have the Google. I might not know the correct syntax to do what I need to do, but I can put the pieces together when I find them. I learned in a similar fashion, many, many moons ago. Reading through my daughter's code is one of my favorite geek dad activities.