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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an upper elementary and a lower elementary child, and we LOVE it.  I think that the special sauce of Montessori is actually in the older grades.  My kids are learning how to make choices, plan their own work, and their guides do a great job of encouraging them to work evenly across all areas.    Will your Montessori let you observe elementary?   Mine did and it was what sealed the deal.[/quote]

Which are you at?? We have talked to a lot of folks who's kids are way behind academically. Some have sighted the larger class sizes so not work well in the upper grades. Both for social emotional development and academics.  Most of them have said the hard class work really needs some small group or larger group instruction.

It does seem like it would need to be more of a mixed instructional method to make it work for most kids in the upper grades.
I love the independence,  thinking skills, sense of self, I see happening with the kids in the program.
But I do worry about students struggling with hard subjects. It jsn't like you can run chemistry labs or stats as a drop in subjects for most students no matter what type of school they went too before. [/quote]

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