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Many parents were debating this question in our Montessori preschool with a 3 year program. It boiled down to logistics for many that had older children in elementary schools some distance away from the Montessori and who preferred driving their kids (or having them take the bus) together to just one school.

The school organized conferences and Q&As about the benefits of Montessori K, and some parents, particularly the ones without logistical problems, decided to stay.

I have observed both public MCPS Kindergarten and our Montessori K. Academically, there is no question at all that Montessori is much more advanced. Students at our Montessori do addition, subtraction, count to a thousand and do multiplication. They can all read by the end of K. They are socialized, polite and listen to teachers.

The public MCPS K is great for learning to deal with social issues, since the classes are large and the students come with a wide variety of social and academic experience. Some classes are so large and have students with such need that there can be no academic learning at all.
Ask other neighborhood parents to find out if the K teachers are any good. My son had an excellent one who managed to differenciate the curriculum. Unfortunately, such teachers are the exception and not the norm.

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