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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid did not do well at breakthrough - the class is defined by the behavior of the lowest common denominator, ie the worst behaved. His class had a boy who routinely was disruptive and fled the classroom and when other children went with him, the attitude was “they’ve made the choice not to learn today”.

Our kids math improved but he went in knowing his alphabet in two languages and left not knowing either.

The emphasis on doing little tasks is adorable but as a friend told me about her kids experience at Montessori: my son can polish a shoe, he just can’t tie one. [/quote]

All of this. I wanted to [b]love[/b] Montessori. I heard all the gushing anecdotes about how great it is, how Montessori kids learn to read earlier and better, how they develop internal drive and discipline....

And then I toured some of my local public and charter Montessori schools and got to know Montessori families and said "this would be a disaster for my child." We put him in regular (albeit high performing) public school instead and it was absolutely the right choice.

And frankly even for these families who are all in on Montessori, I don't see it working for their kids. Their kids struggle to read. They struggle in math. Montessori test scores, when controlling for SES, actually perform worse than regular schools. The parents not-so-quietly lament the behavior problems. They quietly lament that their kids are behind in reading or math and the teachers (sorry, [i]guides[/i]) just shrug and say when the kid is ready to learn, they'll learn. I'm not on the inside, I don't have the full picture of what's going on. But my limited view into it is Montessori is not a place with academic structure and rigor and high standards. Great, you can pour water and arrange flowers. But you can't read, and I know which one is more important.[/quote]

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