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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child is very imaginative, I'd look elsewhere.  My DS loved pretending and his teachers always tried to "correct" him when he would pretend a broom was a leaf blower for example.  [/quote]

&lt;sigh&gt; I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I agree that imaginative play is discouraged during the "work cycle" time in the Montessori classroom. So a kid can't use the pink tower blocks to build a castle for dragons, for example. But on the other hand, I take one of the other poster's point that the students have lots of time outside of the work cycle to engage in imaginative play, such as on the playground. And my own kid, who has been in Montessori since he was a toddler, is very creative and often spends time at home making up little stories and acting them out with his toys. As structured as his class time is, it doesn't seem to have dampened his active imagination. So while I sometimes wish there was more free flow or "pretending" within the classroom, I also see the value of the structure. I go back and forth about this with my spouse all the time :) [/quote]

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