Middle/high school after Montessori Elementary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

Montessori almost definitely works for middle and high school, especially since it better prepares them for the realities of life. Typically, teachers provide lessons based on need in small group settings while students work through a plan they’ve developed to make sure their work gets done and they can explore topics of interest. While I’m not confident in Truth at the moment, I think their model is great and it seems like their test scores are pretty good for last year when looking at the city as a whole.

The model does not work at the middle and high school level where you have large classes, behavior issues, lazy students, electronics, etc.,…. You need structure. You are asking students to make a plan, work thru it themselves to get the work done then explore their topic of interest??

I mean if it was so great a model and successful, you would have a ton more Montessori middle and high schools. I can’t even think on one that I know when I was growing up. They are way in the minority - probably single digit percentages in this country if I had to guess.

BTW Truth scores are not good.