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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son did a trial day in a Montessori classroom and the teacher said he was playing with the broom. She said he was pretending it was a leaf blower. She was unhappy with this and also unhappy with his "unwillingness" to use it as demonstrated "multiple times." I tried not to burst out laughing and nodded solemnly but it was completely ridiculous. He was 2 years old. I enrolled him a play based preschool where he could pretend all he liked.[/quote]

These programs give Montessori a bad name. At my kid’s Montessori program, I’ve seen him pretend to be a turtle, I’ve watched kids turn brooms into leaf blowers, I’ve seen kids talk about how they’re princesses or dinosaurs. They’ve never been ‘corrected.’

If the teacher is trying to show the kid how to sweep, and the kid is misusing the broom, that’s different. If you think that a teacher correcting a kid when teaching him how to sweep is bad, then that’s fine but I just have a different POV... I find that instruction helpful.[/quote]

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