Poolesville magnets

[Anonymous]

My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

Choose Global. The kids overall have more fun with the field trips. There are more kids in the program so it’s a larger cohort and has more crossovers of kids in sports and other ECs. It’s well rounded from a content perspective. I’ve had kids in Global and SMCS, and neighbors with kids in Humanities. The main challenge with Global is being organized about making up missed work due to the trips. My older DC chose Global over SMCS but also did PLTW - good fit. Went to UMD-CP and just graduated with his CS degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

Choose Global. The kids overall have more fun with the field trips. There are more kids in the program so it’s a larger cohort and has more crossovers of kids in sports and other ECs. It’s well rounded from a content perspective. I’ve had kids in Global and SMCS, and neighbors with kids in Humanities. The main challenge with Global is being organized about making up missed work due to the trips. My older DC chose Global over SMCS but also did PLTW - good fit. Went to UMD-CP and just graduated with his CS degree.

DP. I like the sound of Global, but I don’t think that’s going to be much of a selling point to the dcum crowd tbph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

Choose Global. The kids overall have more fun with the field trips. There are more kids in the program so it’s a larger cohort and has more crossovers of kids in sports and other ECs. It’s well rounded from a content perspective. I’ve had kids in Global and SMCS, and neighbors with kids in Humanities. The main challenge with Global is being organized about making up missed work due to the trips. My older DC chose Global over SMCS but also did PLTW - good fit. Went to UMD-CP and just graduated with his CS degree.

DP. I like the sound of Global, but I don’t think that’s going to be much of a selling point to the dcum crowd tbph.

You mean “dcum crowd” as folks insanely obsessed with top 20 unis? Don’t worry, most don’t live in upcountry.

[Anonymous]

Poolesville SMCS program is intense. If your kid doesn’t like STEM, don’t force them to choose this program. Only highly motivated kids with strong self teaching abilities fit this program. 3 out of 62 students in class 2027 dropped out of smcs so far. Many are also suffering but their parents don’t allow them to quit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville SMCS program is intense. If your kid doesn’t like STEM, don’t force them to choose this program. Only highly motivated kids with strong self teaching abilities fit this program. 3 out of 62 students in class 2027 dropped out of smcs so far. Many are also suffering but their parents don’t allow them to quit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

+1
Also, at little over half of the kids are actively cheatiNg on tests and quizzes, while the teachers barely look up from their desk for the whole duration of the test. They cheat off each other in groups and look on their phones for the answers. It’s ridiculous and really punishes those students who don’t cheat by pulling the averages much higher then they actually are.
“Strong self teaching”…that’s a much nicer way of saying the teachers don’t teacher worth sh** and waste time yapping all kinds of nonsense in class and leaving the kids to learn the material on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville SMCS program is intense. If your kid doesn’t like STEM, don’t force them to choose this program. Only highly motivated kids with strong self teaching abilities fit this program. 3 out of 62 students in class 2027 dropped out of smcs so far. Many are also suffering but their parents don’t allow them to quit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

Wow, so far! But it’s only been one semester.

[Anonymous]

This is true. The 3 students quit in October, right after quarter one and middle December respectively.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville SMCS program is intense. If your kid doesn’t like STEM, don’t force them to choose this program. Only highly motivated kids with strong self teaching abilities fit this program. 3 out of 62 students in class 2027 dropped out of smcs so far. Many are also suffering but their parents don’t allow them to quit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

Wow, so far! But it’s only been one semester.

[Anonymous]

How many students are usually accepted to SMCS? Someone in another thread (MCPS HS magnet decisions) says it’s 100. But only 62 in class of 2027? Did they increase the number?

[Anonymous]

Blair has about 100 SMACs students. Poolesville has about 60 each year.

Anonymous wrote:How many students are usually accepted to SMCS? Someone in another thread (MCPS HS magnet decisions) says it’s 100. But only 62 in class of 2027? Did they increase the number?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many students are usually accepted to SMCS? Someone in another thread (MCPS HS magnet decisions) says it’s 100. But only 62 in class of 2027? Did they increase the number?

It’s never been 100. Always around 60.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! It’s quite a small class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! It’s quite a small class.

It’s a small class. The class of 2026 is about 40 boys and 20 girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville SMCS program is intense. If your kid doesn’t like STEM, don’t force them to choose this program. Only highly motivated kids with strong self teaching abilities fit this program. 3 out of 62 students in class 2027 dropped out of smcs so far. Many are also suffering but their parents don’t allow them to quit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

+1
Also, at little over half of the kids are actively cheatiNg on tests and quizzes, while the teachers barely look up from their desk for the whole duration of the test. They cheat off each other in groups and look on their phones for the answers. It’s ridiculous and really punishes those students who don’t cheat by pulling the averages much higher then they actually are.
“Strong self teaching”…that’s a much nicer way of saying the teachers don’t teacher worth sh** and waste time yapping all kinds of nonsense in class and leaving the kids to learn the material on their own.

Yup that’s what my son says too who is a Global student. The workload is so punishing in SMCs that most are known to cheat. My son takes SMCs electives so that’s how he knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poolesville SMCS program is intense. If your kid doesn’t like STEM, don’t force them to choose this program. Only highly motivated kids with strong self teaching abilities fit this program. 3 out of 62 students in class 2027 dropped out of smcs so far. Many are also suffering but their parents don’t allow them to quit.

Anonymous wrote:My kid got into all 3 but has decided against SMCS. How do Global Ecology and Humanities compare in terms of peers, teachers, work load, time for extracurriculars? She doesn’t know what she wants to do in life.

+1
Also, at little over half of the kids are actively cheatiNg on tests and quizzes, while the teachers barely look up from their desk for the whole duration of the test. They cheat off each other in groups and look on their phones for the answers. It’s ridiculous and really punishes those students who don’t cheat by pulling the averages much higher then they actually are.
“Strong self teaching”…that’s a much nicer way of saying the teachers don’t teacher worth sh** and waste time yapping all kinds of nonsense in class and leaving the kids to learn the material on their own.

Yup that’s what my son says too who is a Global student. The workload is so punishing in SMCs that most are known to cheat. My son takes SMCs electives so that’s how he knows.

Taking advantage of some lazy teachers (especially FL), not all, but many students of any program gang together and “help each other”… Sad