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[grassangel]

I find it disappointing there are hardly ANY Montessori communities aimed towards students, past, present or future. They're almost all aimed towards parents and usually lumped in with homeschooling and liberal values. There are a couple aimed towards teachers as well as a general one.
But not one for students.

I'm sure if I looked at some of the homeschooling ones, they may have something there but... it just makes me sad. :(
Parents talking about the benefits is good enough, but seeing actual students talk about it is wonderful. And I'm not talking about people who once went to a Montessori pre-school, I want primary-schoolers, secondary-schoolers.

(This is kind of brought on by Saturday's browsing of Montessori philosophy and equipment videos on YouTube.)

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[carnimirie]

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And on-topic, both my cousins went to a Montessori school for awhile =O (which, was kinda stupid of my aunt to do, because we all live in one of the best school districts of the state, and she's paying enough property taxes to help the public school system, she really shouldn't have spent more when they could have gotten a really good public education buuuuut I digress |D;)

[grass-angel.livejournal.com]

Oh, er, wow, thank you.


On your cousins: It depends on what you mean by 'best' and what your aunt's own reasons for sending them. If by best you mean 'highest grade average' and your aunt wanted that, then yeah, a bit dumb. But if she wanted her kids to be better off in terms of social adjustment and awareness then a public school would've been a poor choice.
In the end the biggest difference between state and montessori schools is that montessori kids have healthier social relationships and are more inquisitive.
Well, that and Montessori actually teaches grammar in such a way that you can actually remember what a preposition is. XD

[carnimirie]

Well, it's more like, the township she lives in has really high property taxes, and she's not exactly loaded, so paying all those property taxes and then also paying that tuition, when she's living in a perfectly good school system already... I mean, it'd be one thing if she lived in a different region of the state, but my school system has been consistently ranked in the top 5 of the state for years.

Ehn, I really don't think my cousins ended up that much better off inquisitive-wise or social-wise, actually ^^;;;

And I've had public schooling all my life and ended up with a pretty good understanding of grammar ^^;

[grass-angel.livejournal.com]

Your public schooling is a lot better about teaching grammar than the education system over here then. My Social Studies teacher last complained (as is still complaining) about how most of the first-year University students can't tell their particles from their pronouns. BASIC STUFF.

Montessori is one of those things where if your kid would REALLY benefit, send them even if you need to find a scholarship for them. But if they wouldn't benefit particularly, then it's a matter if you want to go to the trouble. And those high property taxes sound like a good reason not to go to the trouble.

(I all my years in Montessori schools, there were some kids that definitely didn't suit it. They were usually the ones who left after a term or two, maybe a year at the most.)