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[quote=Anonymous]I did go tour Bowie Montessori and overall, the campus is absolutely beautiful. The work of the middle school students is very impressive. The "primary"/preschool classroom seemed rather chaotic. I've seen a few montessori preschools now and there does seem to be quite a bit of variety in terms of how much literacy and numeracy work is made available to younger kids in the primary room vs being held off for the older kids. Some schools seem more inclined to consider a kid ready than others. I'm not sure where Bowie Montessori fits on that spectrum based on what I saw and it's one of those things that asking about doesn't really give you a reliable answer for, because all the teachers think of themselves as following the child's lead - but that varies in practice.

Clearly by the older grades, everyone's gotten what they needed so I wouldn't be worried about it in terms of long term learning objectives, but I just have a really eager kid with immediate needs for certain kinds of stimulation and I just wasn't sure walking out of the tour how my kid would do there. Now, if I could have sent myself there as an elementary or middle school kid, it would have been the perfect fit! But I was a very different kid than my daughter is. [/quote]

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