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[quote=Anonymous]I sent my daughter to Kindergarten at a montessori school because of a terrible experience in Kindergarten at the public school. She also has a late birthday- Sep 23rd.

While she was advanced enough to be deemed ready for K by MCPS a full year earlier (I opted against that). So when I pulled her from Public school and placed her in the Montessori school, she was one of the older students in her class.

I cant say enough about how great it was to be at the Montessori school and how healthy it was for her to be an environment where kids were encouraged to be kind and mindful. As she adjusted there and flourished, I began to wonder if she was being challenged enough. What I found and what her teachers also found is that she took on a kind of leadership role and displayed kindness to the younger kids who would come in new and would be intimidated. She could comfort kids if they cried, and just generally she grew into the role of that older kid.

She is quite gifted and advanced in many ways, but I never actually felt that she did anything but benefit from the entire approach of mixing it up with the younger kids. It never affected her negatively and has she been in montessori the previous two years, wow- that would have been something. Alas, it was never an option beyond one year. If you can afford it, I would vote WITHOUT HESITATION to continue in the montessori school.

The public kindergarten here was sadly punitive and downright boot-camp like. It was a combo of the teacher and the principal, a sort of random luck toxic blend. My daughter had loved her preschool, and she loved her Montessori Kindergarten.

If funds are not a direct issue, I dont see how the gift of a montessori education for one more year could ever be something you would regret even for a second.[/quote]

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