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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your income is $150k + with 3-4 family members good luck getting any aid in any school.
Also we did private Montessori from age 2 to age 10 and what a huge difference. The first was daycare and public.[/quote]

And a few years later, it makes really no difference:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-01-02/studies-shed-light-on-merits-of-montessori-education%3fcontext=amp[/quote]
There is a lot of extrapolation in this article (which it does a good job of highlighting), so I would be careful to dismiss Montessori so smugly. Anecdotally, DH and I grew up in very different parts of the country with very different parenting styles/home lives, but we both ended up with STEM PhDs in highly quantitative fields. Both of us attribute our mathematical abilities to the approaches we were taught in our Montessori pre-schools and Kindergartens. These approaches are substantively different than traditional approaches to teaching math at those ages.

It's obviously difficult to say, but our kids are showing signs of having better than average math aptitude. We are opting for Montessori pre-school and are enrolling DD in an AMI-certified, Montessori K-5 this fall. The school said it's very common for kids to mainstream school from 6th grade onward, and that is generally what we think we will do. As standard curricula become more academic, the contrast to Montessori methodologies that stress independence and responsibility is starker. I personally feel that the latter two are far more important to long-term personal and professional success than the ability to perform on standardized tests, which is why we are considering Montessori.[/quote]

+1000. People really don't understand Montessori at all. Which is fine, except when they start spouting erroneous "facts" or knee jerk opinions.

Signed, parent of kid in Montessori preschool-6th grade who would do it all over again in a nanosecond. [/quote]

Another Montessori parent. Soft skills will rule.[/quote]

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