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[quote=Anonymous]My 4 yo twins have been in Montessori pre-school for a year.  Before that, they were in a play-based daycare from 3 months to almost 3 yo.  They have never had any such problems with the Montessori school.  We've been to several events, Open House, Show Off Your Classroom Night, the schools's annual picnic and they take us around to introduce us to the various teachers that they have in the preschool (2.5 hours a day) and the ones that they've had in the daycare room (the rest of the day).  They know all the teachers and like all of the teachers.

Conversely, in the play-based daycare, they loved the teachers in the infant room (up to 18 months), the teachers in the toddler room (18-24 months) and the 2's room.  But there was one teacher in the 3's room that they told us several times that they didn't like, about bad experiences with the teacher when she was filling in for a missing teacher.  We discussed with the director of the pre-school and she listened and said she would address the issue, but in talking with other parents at drop-off, there were several others who had problems with this teacher as well, in similar instances (this teacher apparently had a very bad temper, would yell and manhandle children and did not follow center rules).  Despite numerous complaints (during reorganization they scheduled director-teacher meetings every 2-4 weeks and this teacher's name came up repeatedly), this teacher remained.  Despite the fact that we had really enjoyed this daycare center, we determined that our children were going to leave the center before they were transitioned to the 3's room and we did so.  There was no way that this teacher was going to be the primary caregiver for my children.

I would never have blamed our experience on either the school/center or the teaching method just because of the experience of one bad teacher.  The rest of the staff were good and professional and our children loved their classes.  It's a bad fit.  Sounds like OP's child had the same problem, either a bad teacher or a bad fit.  Trying to blame either the school or the Montessori method from that description is unfortunate and inappropriate stereotyping.[/quote]

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