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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:50- why so defensive?   You seem very threatened by someone who disagrees with you.  Just sayin'.[/quote]

Not defensive or threatened so much as frustrated, because with every single Montessori thread, there are people who pop up all upset about the large class sizes, without having done a single bit of reading about the Montessori method. So easy for them to speak out of ignorance. Just sayin'.[/quote]

PP here. I am familiar with the theory. People are allowed to express their view that the "theory" doesn't always work in practice.[/quote]

You don't appear to have read all that much in light of your previous post incorrectly stating that Montessori classes have 25 to 30 "preschoolers." A basic tenet of Montessori instruction is a range in ages in the Primary class -- so from 3 to 6 YO, not all "preschoolers." The reason this works is so that the younger kids learn by observing and working with the older kids.[/quote]

What the PP means is that in practice there isn't always such an even spread of children's ages. "Kindergarteners" may actually be considered preschoolers according to public schools since often the Montessori cutoff is the end of the year whereas the public school system is around the end of August. In reality I've seen many classrooms with less than 5 actual public school age kindergarteners in a classroom of 30 students. It's actually the norm here to have closer to 5 kindergarten students in each 30 child classroom.[/quote]

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