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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Breakthrough parents and parents to be, congrats. You have a special opportunity to help make your school the best it can be. Might I recommend you all take deep breaths, remind yourselves that teaching 3 and 4 year olds to polish plates might be important--not is not complicated--and focus your sights on making sure the elementary program develops as you would have it.

Seriously, larlo will be fine.

Unless he eats a lot of glue.[/quote]

I'm sure Breakthrough will have the healthiest glue available.

Very much agree that public Montessori can go off the rails in elementary.

My kid attended a public Montessori and was found to have a specific reading learning disability. Thank goodness it was a 'strict' Motessori as he needed pullout and push-in reading interventions in a specific evidence-based program and help from a non-Montessori reading specialist. He wasn't the only one. If they hadn't adjusted the curriculum he would have continued to fail miserably.

Montessori materials and methods have limits and public schools must meet the needs of the students who are enrolled under the law. Sometimes that means deviating from AMI best practices. That is fine with me. [/quote]

The WHOLE point of Montessori is that it meets the needs of the child and enables them to excel to the best of their ability and go wherever their abilities take them.  Meeting the needs of the child should always be part of AMI best practices.  I'm glad your kid got the help that he needed.  They also do pullout reading interventions at my child's school (and other activities for those with learning disabilities), which is a public Montessori, and I'm pretty sure they will at Breakthrough too.[/quote]

Thanks. I get a little sensitive when I read posts on this and other threads about how something can't be Montessori if an aide or specialist without Mont certification works in the classroom and it concerns me. The best place for my kid and most kids with disabillities to be is in the classroom, getting support in their environment. So in our case an OT, SLP and reading specialist came in the class and worked with him on Montessori lessons and non-Montessori activities 3-4 hours a week, and he left the classroom for another hour. These adults were all respectful and tried to be non-intrusive to the community but they were there, which is not recommended and certainly wouldn't have happened in a private Montessori.school.

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At my kid's school, the special needs teachers are all Montessori trained.  I've observed the classroom and having an aide working with certain kids on reading within the classroom in no way disrupts the 3 hour work period for the other kids, and because they are Montessori trained their interventions are all within the general approach to Montessori too (the kid has some choice over what they work on and for how long).  In fact, in my kid's elementary classroom there have been up to three other special needs teachers or aides in addition to the main guide.  It works very smoothly.[/quote]

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