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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:21 I'm not an asshole. [b]I'm just sick of parents and teachers giving advice who have so little experience.[/b] Montessori teacher is obviously pro-Montessori. Twin dad is just an inexperienced dad with a kid in a preschool he admits he doesn't think is well run. Twin Dad was advocating choosing a Montessori based on observations from 10 weeks. 10 weeks! If you find that incredibly helpful, I think you're the one whose short sighted.[/quote]

Ironic, because many people on this board freely criticize Montessori (example: the subject line of this thread referring to Montessori as a "cult") without having read anything about the Montessori method or after having toured only one school or only having one experience with a school, or else, like one of the PPs, they "know a Montessori kid and he's weird." [/quote]

It's true people do this without much research, but the same can be said for parents who haven't had their child in a playbased or traditional program but are comparing their Montessori experience to the worst daycare in the neighborhood or the preschool they grew up attending. I think more people have read up on Montessori than most Montessori teachers and parents either realize or give them credit for. There is definitely a general response among Montessori teachers in particular that if a parent has an issue with the school in some way that the real problem is that the parent doesn't understand the method well enough.[/quote]

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