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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any LAMB families end up going to Truth? It’s an interesting option to continue Montessori beyond elementary. [/quote]

We are at lamb. Definitely not considering truth. Lamb is great but it is very easy for kids to slip through the cracks and avoid learning difficult subjects.

I just don’t think that’s smart for middle or high school.  [/quote]

We left LAMB after fourth grade because of this issue. My child was slipping through the cracks in areas that were not his strengths. Montessori requires a ton of executive functioning in order to learn at pace with your peers because you have to organize yourself more than in a traditional classroom. While I always found Truth intriguing, I would want to know how they are tracking kids carefully in all key subjects and jumping quickly to remediate areas kids fall behind in. You may not think this is an issue for your child if they are doing well in a traditional  school….but Montessori could create the issue. We had the opposite experience: issues disappeared once child was being required to work in all subjects in a traditional environment. [/quote]

This is why you don’t have many Montessori middle and high schools.  Most kids are not self motivated and will choose to focus on easier subjects.  That is why structure is important with requirements to work in all subjects.

I think it’s great in ECE and maybe early elementary with K, 1st.  But higher elementary and up, it is not a good fit for many kids.[/quote]

Not to derail but I have actually found that there is a ton of structure to elementary at LAMB. Maybe this is new with a new focus on academic metrics and so forth. In elementary Montessori the kids do have to cover every area and they have checklists of work to complete every day including all classroom areas. The flexibility is supposed to be more in how they choose to learn those subjects and even then it’s fairly regimented. At least this year it is. I’ve been actually less happy with that because it feels less free and fun and child led but it certainly is not allowing any falling through cracks.[/quote]

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