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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Because it's often true -
all other things being equal (teacher quality, student motivation, blah blah blah).

All of the K class in our Montessori school were emerging readers (could read books with one or more sentences on each page) and could count up to a thousand with the thousand chain (which gives a concrete introduction to cubing numbers). They knew how to attend to their own work yet loved to jump in and help a younger student in need of guidance.

Montessori for my children provided just the right balance of free play, calm group socialization, with rigorous yet effortless learning. My children's creativity was not stifled, they did not become little robots, but they did acquire an excellent grounding for the "real" school.

That being said, the most important thing is that THE METHOD IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE TEACHER.

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:roll: Both my kids went to a play based preschool...and both were reading at an end of first grade level at the beginning of kindergarten.  (My older one was - and my younger one is now - pulled out 2x/week for enrichment in kindergarten with an advanced academics teacher.  For my second child - a boy - he is one of THREE kids out of 60 out of two different kindergarten classes who is pulled out for this enrichment.)  This was far more than an 'emergent' reader could ever be.  (Oh...and one mother looked at me at pick up the other day waiting for our kindergarteners to be released and said, "I'm shocked that Larla wasn't picked to be pulled out for this enrichment program.  She was at Montessori!!!"  Um...okay...

Reading is like bike riding or potty training...you can give the back up support for it, but they do it when they are ready.  It really doesn't have to do with Montessori.[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but I would agree with you only to an extent. If you are giving back up support for it and your child is ready, yes, they will be reading, using the toilet and riding a bike sooner. If parents are not giving support, it has been my experience and the experience of a few other people I know that Montessori resulted in "better education" than a play-based curriculum. I am not saying that to mean that one is better than the other. You're always going to have better results from whatever program your child is in if you are involved. My child was in play-based preschool before Montessori preschool and she has done well in both environments.

You're talking about parental entitlement, which may or may not have anything to do with what sort of education a child receives, either at school or at home.[/quote]

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