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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school I am considering has 30 students in a class with 3  adults.  Seems like a bad ratio, although the school is beautiful.[/quote]

I am the previous poster whose son did not do well. We had a similar ratio. And it was one of the most reputation schools you hear on these boards. I think most kids indeed can survive in such an environment and may do well. However, three boys left soon after entering the primary program in this school because mutual feelings of bad fit. And I have talked with at least one unhappy parent after we left. Although in her case, her little girl doesn't act out so she cannot leave without a financial hit. According to her, many others in the class are not exactly happy but they tolerate it because the kids learn a lot academically. A neighboring play based preschool director said they have several children who left this school to go to theirs. Our pediatrician was also not surprised that some kids don't fit in there.

So in short, not every child do well in a Montessori school. In general, more compliant and self-motivated children do better. The teacher herself said that the most important thing to do well in her classroom is social maturity and then they can advance academically. My son is academically precocious but socially less mature and he is doing so much better in his new school where the teachers are just that much more patient and flexible. I am still not convinced entirely that our case was simply a bad fit with the philosophy. It was certainly a case of bad fit with the teacher. I would not recommend anyone to her classroom. [/quote]

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