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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher I would just like to add my own input.  I have had many students transfer from Montessori schools to my public school classroom and truly struggle.  In Montessori education students are not taught deadlines or accountability and are often shocked when they have to hand in reports or essays on time.  Parents too are shocked when they see that their Montessori educated child is not always the star pupil of the class.  I have also found that although these children enjoy reading and love to write and write and write, if one actually reads their work it is riddled with grammatical errors.  This has just been my observation over my years of teaching.  Hope that helps some people.[/quote]

Your experience is far from representative.  My school (which is 3- high school now) had tests, deadlines, and even took national standardized tests as well.  We had monthly work plans as well as weekly plans, and even daily plans for early child hood classrooms.  So to globalize that no Montessori kids have deadlines and poor grammar is patently unfair and incorrect.

For what its worth, I transferred to a public first grade for 6 weeks then back to my Montessori school.  The teacher thought I was a problem student because I wasn't used to being stuck in a desk all day and I was used to talking to my peers.  I was also bored to tears because I was reading at a third-grade level (they had to move up to a different class for language arts) while the other first graders were coloring in the letter A, an alligator, an apple, etc.

I too may have been perceived as a problem child when I transferred to first grade in a traditional school.  That was because I was bored, since I was already reading street signs I had never seen before while as a class we were coloring in the letter A and pictures of alligators and apples.  I don't see how being [/quote]

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