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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lee Montessori rocked DL and quickly came up with a plan. [/quote]

I mean, no Montessori can rock DL but hey, you do you.

Sometimes I just think people have been Stockholm syndromed into thinking this year was great and fine.[/quote]

Why wouldn’t a Montessori school be able to rock DL? Dr. Montessori herself said people completely missed the point with her philosophy on education by focusing on the materials.[/quote]

Environment is essential for Montessori. It's not about the Montessori-approved materials (you could stock a Montessori classroom with stuff from a couple garage sales and a trip to Walmart if you needed to), but the environment does need to be set up in a specific way. And for a true Montessori education, you really need a classroom with multiple children in order to fully embrace the kind of child-led exploration the approach dictates. Plus the reason Montessori teachers generally have certifications is that the style of leading/teaching in Montessori requires a specific skill set (and honestly is not conducive to a limited amount of online instruction a few times a day).

So unless everyone at Lee just happens to have a very relaxed home life with enough space, and at least one parent with the time and skills to facilitate, then Lee failed at providing a Montessori education to their kids. I'm sure some kids had a good experience, but those are likely kids with a SAHP and means and consistent schedules who could homeschool and be fine. A lot of Lee kids don't have anything like that, and they barely got an education at all this year, much less one grounded in Montessori philosophy. Come on.[/quote]

Eh. I'm sure Maria Montessori wouldn't see things so inflexibly during a pandemic.
I bet the staff had a good sense of what essential aspects of Montessori needed to be implemented at home. Youtube videos show plenty of options for handwritten paper pieces instead of beautiful wooden blocks, for example. and yes, a peer group is super important in Montessori, but it is too in all models of education!  
And a relaxed home with space and a parent with time are elements that helped kids thrive in distance learning in all models. [/quote]

Honestly, this is an utterly absurd argument. There's no way any educator, much less a Montessori ECE educator, would ever claim with a straight face that DL works.  [/quote] What element of my little six line paragraph is one utterly absurd argument? I say a few things. You say none, other than angry pronouncements of failure.[/quote]

the idea that Maria Montessori would think DL was anything but a travesty - she who devised her method to help teach SN and disadvantage kids, who emphasized the prepared environment to create autonomy, who emphasized hands-on learning and teaching ... [/quote]

She devised something new, while using what was available to her to work with. Such a huge emphasis on the little everyday domestic tasks in the very early years. What better environment than a loving home? She created that environment for children much worse off than Lee Montessori students. DCPCS students by-and-large have at home what Maria Montessori had to recreate inside of a children's home.[/quote]

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