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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are butting heads because there’s a distinction between the montessori purists and the Montessori inspired.  Some of them are really cultish and you need to figure out how much flex they have.  I suggested uphread questions about cursive and the work cycle as good proxies, but the play pretend question is also a good one.  
I agree with PP that in a good Montessori classroom, there is a lot of collaboration, often between older/younger kids.[/quote]

I agree with about half of this but my very cultish Montessori school values free time and play and imagination and all that kid stuff.

BTW, that ‘blocks’ thing that people are talking about isn’t blocks as you know it — it’s the first part of the Montessori math curriculum. And yeah, they are supposed to do a specific thing with them. However, there are other blocks that can be ‘played with’ in the most free form way. You can’t ‘play’ with pink tower or brown stairs blocks, but you can play with other blocks — just like kids at traditional school can’t ‘play’ randomly with, like, compasses or whatever.[/quote]

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