What are magnet kids like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, congratulation to your DC. Based on your descrition, your DC is a perfect child but he may be too good for the magnet.
My DS went there a few years ago. Let me tell you how bad it could be. Please dont subject your snowflasks to the brutal environment.
A lots of very mean kids who would answer other kids’ questions on homework after 9 pm. Many competitive parents offer to drive kids to math meet. The unintelligent kids could solve rubiks cubes in 8 sec. Some annoying kids announce test score in the classroom. Cold heart kids run around in the computer lab to help other kids to solve the issues in programing. However, some kids who have been cuddled in ES may not get any extra attention from the teachers and may realize that they are the smartest students.
Good luck on finding the best fit for your child.

Jesus. All I can say is this sounds absolutely nothing like my kids' magnet middle school experiences.

DP. That sounds like a lame attempt for humor, written in poor, non-native English. Ignore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, congratulation to your DC. Based on your descrition, your DC is a perfect child but he may be too good for the magnet.
My DS went there a few years ago. Let me tell you how bad it could be. Please dont subject your snowflasks to the brutal environment.
A lots of very mean kids who would answer other kids’ questions on homework after 9 pm. Many competitive parents offer to drive kids to math meet. The unintelligent kids could solve rubiks cubes in 8 sec. Some annoying kids announce test score in the classroom. Cold heart kids run around in the computer lab to help other kids to solve the issues in programing. However, some kids who have been cuddled in ES may not get any extra attention from the teachers and may realize that they are the smartest students.
Good luck on finding the best fit for your child.

Jesus. All I can say is this sounds absolutely nothing like my kids' magnet middle school experiences.

That’s because this poster’s kid is on the waitlist, and they are trying to scare people off.

[Anonymous]

They're all super attractive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're all super attractive.

Actually, some of them tend to repel others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're all super attractive.

Actually, some of them tend to repel others.

Usually, magnet and non-magnet kids don't stick together.

[Anonymous]

Magnet kids are very attractive.
(I crack myself up!)
But, my kids are “magnet kids”, and there are allll kinds of kids there, just like in a “regular” school.

[Anonymous]

How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

[Anonymous]

My DC made friends on the bus which was kids in our neighborhood school cluster so not that far to get together outside of school. The kids can also ride home on each other’s buses and then you can get pick them up later at night (for Friday night get togethers).

I should mention that I am talking about RCMS/MLKMS. From what I read here, it sounds like distance is less of an issue in our part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

You become adept at driving them across the county. They become adept at using public transportation. Although Purple Line would have been heaven, my teen regularly takes the red line from Rockville to Takoma Park, as well as occasionally taking the cross-county bus to Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

You become adept at driving them across the county. They become adept at using public transportation. Although Purple Line would have been heaven, my teen regularly takes the red line from Rockville to Takoma Park, as well as occasionally taking the cross-county bus to Silver Spring.

Take RideOn 5 instead of going all the way into DC and back out on Metro!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

On their phones, just like with the non-magnet kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

You become adept at driving them across the county. They become adept at using public transportation. Although Purple Line would have been heaven, my teen regularly takes the red line from Rockville to Takoma Park, as well as occasionally taking the cross-county bus to Silver Spring.

Take RideOn 5 instead of going all the way into DC and back out on Metro!!!

Thanks for the tip!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

On their phones, just like with the non-magnet kids.

Mines a rising 6th grader and doesn’t have a phone. :-/

[Anonymous]

My poor 6th grade magnet student doesn’t have a cell phone. She reads or stares out the window in the morning and chats with friends or does homework in the afternoon. She’s lucky though, her bus ride is only 40 minutes in the morning and 50 minutes in the afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does the social stuff work if everybody is taking long bus rides to school? How do the kids get together to socialize outside of school? It seems like a lot of kids would just be too geographically spread out. How does it work?

On their phones, just like with the non-magnet kids.

Mines a rising 6th grader and doesn’t have a phone. :-/

You don't need a phone for stuff like Google Hangouts.