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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumping this as we are a military family who received their orders after the lottery deadline, and are approaching the top of the list for our lower elementary kid. I noticed that in the job postings on the Shining Stars websites, lead teachers aren't required to have a Montessori degree or experience? How integrated are Montessori materials in the classroom? Is it all in or 50/50? We are coming from an NC Montessori charter that isn't yet AMI certified, but wants to get there, so all guides have to have a masters in Montessori teaching[/quote] [b]All lead guides are required to be certified.[/b] The job postings indicate so. The school requires it to maintain all its accreditation. They are also piloting a Spanish program, started a little slow but is taking great shape. New guides have been hired in the upper levels to address previous issues and most of the facility problems have been address. It’s a great school, with a nice and diverse community. [/quote] This is categorically false. Shining stars absolutely hires guides who are not certified and simply requires them to work towards certification. Last year the sole upper elementary guide was not montessori trained and was so awful, close to half the upper elementary families left in the first few months of school. I believe she was ultimately fired. Similarly, the Spanish speaking guide was not certified and the current principal has zero montessori training or experience, beyond whatever course she took over the past summer.[/quote] The new hires are all montessori certified. The assistants are not but have training. The spanish teachers are getting their certification by the end of the year. Both new teachers in the first grade Spanish class are real montessori, trained and certified. The problems of the previous years are being addressed with the great plus of a diverse faculty. Not many schools can say that[/quote] This is such a load of cap. There is a primary class with no teacher at all right now. Even worse, families were NEVER notified that the teacher in that classroom wasn't returning this year and that no replacement teacher had been hired. Parents prepared their children to go back into a classroom with the same teacher, only to learn from their kids that actually their teacher wasn't there anymore. The administration has not shared this critical information on advance, although this teacher left in July. This is just cruel and I really feel for those kids. Stay away!!![/quote] Which teacher’s class is this? Was it just Ms. L’s? We caught wind from another parent that our child's primary teacher had left, contacted the principal and got a snotty reply, and jumped ship.[/quote] It was that class. I think there were only 2 other guides that left (one primary who moved across the country and one lower el who who's contract was not renewed), and those were known by end of school year. My understanding was that Ms. L was planning to return, then left only a couple weeks before school started, which left the school in a rough spot (however, I am definitely not defending them with how they handled it - i.e. not letting returning students in the class know). [/quote]
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