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We got a student from a Montessori school in my first grade classroom this year. He is significantly behind the other students in reading. I talked to his teacher and she said that students get to choose what to do and he mostly wanted to do math and science so that's what he did. Nobody made him do anything else so he didn't. Yeah, that's not how the world works kiddo. He had a hard adjustment because he was used to do what he wanted all of the time.[/quote] 
That's not how Montessori is supposed to work either. The teachers should keep careful track of each student's progress in each subject area and guide/steer the student to ensure progress across all areas over time, using various tactics that allow for some free choice within certain parameters. That doesn't mean the progress has to be equal in all areas or that there will be no students lagging behind ever in any area.  But it's not supposed to be a laissez faire system or anything close to that.[/quote]

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