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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

Teenagers cheat that’s a known thing, but what’s despicable is the teachers allowing it to happen so openly without any accountability.

[Anonymous]

So none of you holier than Thou never ever cheated? You think this only happens in Poolesville SMCS?

[Anonymous]

Global is a great program. Really depends what your kid is interested in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Teenagers cheat that’s a known thing, but what’s despicable is the teachers allowing it to happen so openly without any accountability.

+1000

[Anonymous]

The problem is the smcs teacher do nothing to stop or prevent the cheating. A simple looking up at the classroom during the test or walking around during the test would suffice. That would dramatically curb the cheating. But the teachers don’t, bc it’s self -serving for them if the kids get higher scores…they can pretend it’s all due to their “teaching skills”
One teacher, to the whole class, goes as far as saying “hey student X you scored really high on this test when you normally get a c avg … I wonder how you do that …wink wink.”
When my child tells me this….i am shocked by these teachers behaviors. Is there no accountability or oversight by the admin?

[Anonymous]

PHS would have orientation or open house event. Existing students from houses will present their projects and share their experience. They also allow high school class shadowing. The admitted students can determine if they want to enroll the program. But it happened before pandemic. I'm not sure if they still arrange the same. Students in each house would think theirs better than the other two houses.

Congrats to your DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PHS would have orientation or open house event. Existing students from houses will present their projects and share their experience. They also allow high school class shadowing. The admitted students can determine if they want to enroll the program. But it happened before pandemic. I'm not sure if they still arrange the same. Students in each house would think theirs better than the other two houses.

Congrats to your DC.

The informational welcome nights for all three houses are tonight. Global Ecology and Humanities are at the same time, unless I’m mistaken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PHS would have orientation or open house event. Existing students from houses will present their projects and share their experience. They also allow high school class shadowing. The admitted students can determine if they want to enroll the program. But it happened before pandemic. I'm not sure if they still arrange the same. Students in each house would think theirs better than the other two houses.

Congrats to your DC.

The informational welcome nights for all three houses are tonight. Global Ecology and Humanities are at the same time, unless I’m mistaken.

I think SMaCS is also at the same time. Starts at 6:00 I think? My daughter was invited to all three houses out of Clemente and ended up choosing the SMaCS house. Long days, but she's loving it. She'll be doing some sort of Q&A at the presentation tonight. She was always a math kid but is really becoming interested in robotics and physics (and bio).