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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So why do people like Montessori? It sounds awful...[/quote]

In our experience, kids learn way more in a montessori classroom. Not all parents want this - some prefer that they play just be kids while they're young and wait to focus on academics until the later years. It's also a much calmer space, if that makes sense. Once again, not all parents want this. They also have much higher quality educational materials - the minimum set of material to be considered a 'true' montessori classroom is fairly extensive (and expensive!).

They also learn to wait for their turn with stations/materials since there's often just one of each thing in a classroom and there's a focus on practical life skills (usually there's just a one-person painting station set up, for example, with a smock that they're expected to use, and they get their own water from the sink and clean their own brushes afterwards, etc).

If those things don't stand out to you as being positive, then montessori probably isn't for you. I can honestly say that I have zero interest in a "play-based preschool", so maybe if you're on the fence then you have your answer.[/quote]I've been to many play based centers that are cxlm as well. This really depends on the teachers, etc[/quote]

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