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[quote=Anonymous]The original question was, "Why don't schools let kids into Montessori schools at higher grade levels?" The answer to that question is that by the time Montessori children enter higher grade levels (Elementary and Adolescence), they have already developed a work ethic and set of academic skills that are, hopefully, light-years ahead of their peers. These skills were developed in the Montessori Primary program. Children who are enter Montessori programs in Elementary or Adolescence without any previous Montessori experience often struggle with how much responsibility they are given over their own learning. They just haven't learned how to be the self-starting learners like the children who have graduated from a healthy Primary program. They often also struggle with academics. For instance, it is not uncommon for children who have graduated from Primary to be able to write and read with a fair amount of fluency and have a basic knowledge of the function of words (grammar). They have also been exposed to and have been practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - of 4 digit numbers. They have spent the past 3 years developing a physical impression of geometric and algebraic concepts that they will discover in Lower Elementary (1st - 3rd grade).

Because this conversation kind of changed topic to Wether or Not There Are Montessori High Schools, I am adding some links about Montessori for Adolescents.

Below is a link to Maria Montessori's own writings about what an adolescent program should look like.
[https://archive.org/details/TheErdkinderAndTheFunctionsOfTheUniversity]

Below is a link to Michlael Olaf's page of mussings on Montessori Middle and High School. Michael Olaf is a catalog, but is run by people who are [i]very[/i] well respected in the Montessori community.
[http://www.michaelolaf.net/montessori12-18.html]

Below is a link to Hershey Montessori school. It is considered to be the embodiment of what Maria Montessori would have done if she had been able to fully develop the Adolescent program in her lifetime.
[http://www.hershey-montessori.org/adolescentcommunity.cfm][/quote]

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