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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is a strong willed and spirited child. She does well in Montessori because she isn't expected to sit at a desk and do what 15 other kids are doing. She loves the independance interspersed with one on one lessons. But I see lots of different kids doing well in her class--serious, hyper, eager to please. [/quote]

That might be a good comparison in the older grades -- I don't know. But no good preschool would have her sitting at a desk doing what 15 other kids are doing.

My dd would do terribly in a montessori bc she likes to [b]hyperfocus[/b] -- without the structure of teacher-guided activities, she'd do the same thing over and over without interacting with anyone. But at her good play-based school, she still ad plenty of times for individual choice and there were no desks or worksheets at all. [/quote]

My kids have been at  M school for years. The hyperfocus issue is something Montessori supports strongly and allows. My kids and other kids at the school have been known to do one particular work for hours or even days. The Montessori explanation for this is that the kid's brain is really into that particular work at that moment and is learning/growing like crazy. It's the Montessori teacher's responsibility to make sure the child covers all the required subjects by the end of the week, and end of the school year.[/quote]

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