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For all years from K up there are years when some kids move in boundary during the summer and have the right to attend automatically.

If kids going into prek3 or prek4 do this, especially if they are ready on the WL , they may jump up places on the list based on new preference.

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Anonymous wrote:PK3, no sibling preference :

1. DCB #33
2. Stokes Brookland #25
3. Global Citizens: Match

We put it for a lottery slot when we weren’t sure if we’d have to move to DC because of the Trump administration. Well, turns out we don’t, and my husband is more likely to get laid off.

I can’t believe we got fairly lucky! Hopefully that luck applies to my local PK3 program too…best of luck to your waitlist movement! 🍀

Are you doing Mandarin or Spanish for Global Citizens? Have you visited the school yet? What are your thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this true for PK at CHML too?

No, PK is great! It’s the only part of the school that’s actually Montessori accredited.

Yes, because it is MONTESSORI!!!! It is designed for ECE. The idea that children and preteens should get to pick what and how they learn is stupidity.

It is so poorly implemented at CHML too. The students have no idea how a "normal" classroom should look and function. They don't have the attention spans to sit through any kind of direct instruction, they think they can do whatever they want, and therefore, struggle when they get to high school and are expected to function in a regular classroom setting. The 4th-5th grade classrooms are full of behavior problems and this is known as many parents opt to pull their kids out after 3rd grade. Montessori can work but only highly motivated and independent students can succeed and CHML is full of kids who were kicked out of their DCPS school/charters/etc. It just does not work.

I don’t believe either of you truly are Momtessorians and would be able to speak to the validity of your responses. Montessori was NOT designed for ECE. It is a philosophy that can be applied at any plane of development. Montessori began working on her design of the Secondary space, but she unfortunately passed away before it was completed.

CHML does not actually do Montessori beyond the primary grade band. Any issues that exist in 1st grade and beyond can not be blamed on Montessori because they aren’t even following what they would need to do to be accredited.

These defenses of Montessori and CHML are laughable. People like you spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about pedagogy and implementation because it is easier to wax philosophic than to look at hard data and acknowledge reality. Montessori was designed for ECE. The revisionist history employed in defense of Saint Maria is nonsense. The system was designed in the early 1900s in a time and place with decidedly different demographics and realities. People like PP always fall back on some weird defense the failure isn't Montessori, it is the school's application. As if that makes one bit of difference to parents whose kids are there.

At some point the way you learn math and science is to learn math and science. Phrases like "drill and kill" are used pejoratively to describe schools that [GASP] make kids memorize concepts and formulas and then test them on it.

CHML caters to (majority white) wealthy parents who can afford to take chances on schools in defense of silly pedagogies that matter to a small group of Lululemon wearing yoga moms with free time.

This is true for lamb as well even though CHML is a significantly worse school.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this true for PK at CHML too?

No, PK is great! It’s the only part of the school that’s actually Montessori accredited.

Yes, because it is MONTESSORI!!!! It is designed for ECE. The idea that children and preteens should get to pick what and how they learn is stupidity.

It is so poorly implemented at CHML too. The students have no idea how a "normal" classroom should look and function. They don't have the attention spans to sit through any kind of direct instruction, they think they can do whatever they want, and therefore, struggle when they get to high school and are expected to function in a regular classroom setting. The 4th-5th grade classrooms are full of behavior problems and this is known as many parents opt to pull their kids out after 3rd grade. Montessori can work but only highly motivated and independent students can succeed and CHML is full of kids who were kicked out of their DCPS school/charters/etc. It just does not work.

I don’t believe either of you truly are Momtessorians and would be able to speak to the validity of your responses. Montessori was NOT designed for ECE. It is a philosophy that can be applied at any plane of development. Montessori began working on her design of the Secondary space, but she unfortunately passed away before it was completed.

CHML does not actually do Montessori beyond the primary grade band. Any issues that exist in 1st grade and beyond can not be blamed on Montessori because they aren’t even following what they would need to do to be accredited.

These defenses of Montessori and CHML are laughable. People like you spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about pedagogy and implementation because it is easier to wax philosophic than to look at hard data and acknowledge reality. Montessori was designed for ECE. The revisionist history employed in defense of Saint Maria is nonsense. The system was designed in the early 1900s in a time and place with decidedly different demographics and realities. People like PP always fall back on some weird defense the failure isn't Montessori, it is the school's application. As if that makes one bit of difference to parents whose kids are there.

At some point the way you learn math and science is to learn math and science. Phrases like "drill and kill" are used pejoratively to describe schools that [GASP] make kids memorize concepts and formulas and then test them on it.

CHML caters to (majority white) wealthy parents who can afford to take chances on schools in defense of silly pedagogies that matter to a small group of Lululemon wearing yoga moms with free time.

This is true for lamb as well even though CHML is a significantly worse school.

I went to a public Montessori high school in the Midwest that was excellent and extremely high performing. I graduated 16 years ago, not sure the world has changed that much.

I imagine an excellent Montessori school is far better than a mediocre traditional school. Likewise, an excellent traditional school is likely far better than a mediocre Montessori school