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[quote=Anonymous]Well, I'm 42 and went to Montessori from preschool until 4th grade.  What do you want to know?  If it influenced my personality?

No, I don't think it did that. But it was a very comfortable and positive environment for me.  I transitioned to a more traditional PS in 4th grade, and some elements--especially the social "cliques" of the school--definitely threw me.  I was used to being in a school where there were no cliques, no real "best friends" (although there was, unfortunately, one kid who got picked on a lot--not proud of that).

I also really liked the relatively low levels of achievement/ability comparison at my M school.  I don't really remember knowing which kid was in which reading or math level, and I don't remember thinking so and so is a smart kid, and so and so isn't.  In PS, however, I felt like that information was much more public, which I think is a bad thing for kids.

One thing that I think did carry over is a comfort level with doing bigger, complicated projects.  So things like writing a report using several sources; writing and putting on a puppet show; doing a science investigation or demonstration--did not freak me out.  We just always did stuff like that in the upper M grades... in PS, it seemed like these projects were rare, and a "big deal" and often really slowly stepped out into little constituent parts.

What my PS had as an advantage of M was teaching certain things like science CONTENT (but not thinking) and grammar (which we never did in M, as far as I know).  So the didactic, declarative information stuff... better in PS.[/quote]

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