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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Judging from my friends' kids who go to Montessori, they leave significantly ahead in academics. By middle elementary school, though, where anyone went to preschool is irrelevant.[/quote]

We got a student from a Montessori school in my first grade classroom this year. He is significantly behind the other students in reading. I talked to his teacher and she said that students get to choose what to do and he mostly wanted to do math and science so that's what he did. Nobody made him do anything else so he didn't. Yeah, that's not how the world works kiddo. He had a hard adjustment because he was used to do what he wanted all of the time.[/quote]

You're complaining because a kid can't read before starting FIRST grade? When you know for a fact that he must be well ahead of the other kids in math and science?[/quote]

In most districts, kids are expected to be reading on at least a level D by the end of KG. If they come into 1st grade as non-readers, yes, they are behind.[/quote]

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