i turned out just fine

my brother has had both of his children in them and is very happy with their approach and curriculum.

Isn't this where the Tards go?

My 4 year old daughter is in one. We are extremely happy with the school she is in. They do a great job with the kids and we're amazed at all of the stuff she's learning in there.

I was in a montessori school for kindergarden through 8th grade.  It is a very different approach, but it got me into the private high school of my choice.  It was weak on the math and sciences and heavy on the lets hold hands and solve the worlds problems.  I still came out with a strong desire to own and shoot guns.  Just raise your kids right and that should counteract the liberal bullshit that the schools press.

Tards go to public schools

 

uh-huh.

Everyone gets a trophy, yeah.
My sister is a flaming Lib, her oldest went to a Waldorf Education camp....err school, I think they are similar.





Any how, it has GAY written all over it.





That's my harsh and simplistic opinion, judge the video presentation for yourself :





http://www.tidewaterschool.org/            (no hotlink please)
ETA : a primer .... http://www.michaelolaf.net/MONTESSORI%20and%20WALDORF.html

Very expensive when we had our child enrolled in Cheyenne, and I really couldn't honestly tell you that he had excelled over his non-Montessori peers.

My son was Pre-K'er in a Montessori school and I got the same impression.  Obviously, he wasn't taking math and science in Pre-K but, after talking to the teachers and other parents, it just seemed a little "liberal" to me.  So, starting in Kindergarten, we sent him to a very good Catholic school in our area.  He's in third grade now, loves his school, and does very well.  My wife and I are happy with our decision.

Damn that's why my parents put me in public school.

I can attest to this a bit as I've known several people, and I'm sure I'll get blasted, but this is just my experience...

If you want your kids to be super smart and excel in academics but suck at making friends... send them.
If you want your kids to have decent social skills, and decent academics... send them to normal school.
If you want a decent balance, send them to montessori through like 3rd or 4th grade, then get them the crap out of there so they can learn to play with other kids.

Out of the people I have known that went to those, none have been totally normal.
One chick is super duper hot, OK but not great social skills, she's super smart, but she sits at home and reads all day, she's 25 years old, has no job, has no desire to get a driver's license, and she has a kid.
Others I've known are just odd, they don't know how to interact with people on a social level. Some kids were just spacey and wanted to sit and do their own thing not understanding how to play with the other children, and another guy I knew looked at me one day and said, "I wish I had a chance to be young again and make friends." He was like 20.

Some parents of a girl they were considering sending I brought up the social problem and they said, "Oh, don't worry, we know... 4th or 5th grade and we'll put them in a real school. We've seen the social issues."

Flame away

Both my children went to a montessori school from age 2 1/2 through kindergarden.

Both now go to public school and are doing very well.

Maria Montessori focused on early childhood development. I think this is where there is the biggest difference (advantage).
I like the mixed ages and the hands on part of it.

They did right by you.  






I have only heard great things about Montessori schools.


(In Prescott some pedo was going to schools as a 12 y/o(don't ask me how he managed to do that

) but he got caught when he tried at a Montessori.  There was like 8 other schools he did this at.)  







 

If you want a girl to become a foul badly behaved whore. You send them to public school to learn to be a petty cruel bitch who thinks getting sexually harassed and treated like a piece of meat is normal.

 

I think there is research out there that at either at high school graduation or college graduation there was statistically no difference in how Montessori kids turned out.

That's because HS and college is mostly a joke.

 

I went there for pre-school and frankly found them a little lacking. They were innovative, supportive, nurturing . . . I discovered upon entering elementary school that they in no way prepared me properly for nuns. Nuns for 8 years. I mean really . . . they should have started me on a strict program of kneeling on rows of pencils, getting the backs of my knuckles whacked with one of those solid three sided wood rulers, holding folding chairs above my head, repetitive blackboard writing . . .  




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I'm a product of the system, and there is only one problem that I encountered. My parents sent me Pre-K. I loved it and was reading on a 3rd grade level and doing simple division and multiplication by the time I left. The problem I had was when I went into gradeschool at a seperate private academy, the program only went through K, I was way ahead of those in my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classes. I then got bored and became somewhat of a pain in the ass according to my teachers. I was that smart fucker that always blurts out answers, who everyone wants to beat the shit out of. After a few bouts on the playground I straightened out. As far as sending your children all the way Pre-8-12 I would not, as the community is really tight and full of libs. I however am going to send my daughter Pre-K and then transfer her into the local Christian school that streamlines one of their classes for the advanced kids coming out of the program. I loved it and learned alot of cool stuff. also had my first girlfriend, and beat a kid up who refused to come back to school, for making fun of a deaf girl. YMMV, but I will not hesitate to send my daughter.

My wife is a certified Montessori teacher.  She works in a public school that is branded as Montessori.  Its a branding... nothing more.   They have all of the materials, furniture etc.   But, because of No Child Left Behind and SOL's they do not get to use them.  Montessori and SOL's are in my opinion diametrically opposite teaching methods.  Montessori is typically letting the child learn at their own pace with a teacher guiding them.  In a standard school setting it is required the child learn a specific set of information as laid out by the teacher following the SOL guidelines.  I have seen my wife go through the whole process of getting certified to teach Montessori, and then come to the realization that because she has to make absolutely sure that the kids pass the SOL's she cannot teach in a Montessori  style.  It has been a painful process.

I honestly think that I would have done better in a Montessori school had I been given a chance.  Looking at the materials they use, I would have understood them a lot better than then worksheets and crap my teachers put me through.  

I also know a few kids that are attending private Montessori schools.  I see nothing wrong with them.  I do note that their parents are a heck of a lot more involved in their kids education than the public school parents.  I do think that is the key for a lot of kids.   The parents at my wifes school see it as a place to drop off the kids while they go to work.  That is if they work.  

I'm in education and from all I have read the closer a regular public school is to the montessori type of concept the better the kids do on the state tests (whatever that is worth
).

My daughter went to one for two pre-school years, and kindergarten.






 

I was doing stuff there that most didn't until 2nd or 3rd grade.  It is a nice jump start, but things average off before middle school.

ETA: I was there for I think 2 years then went into 1st grade at a private school.

My mother taught in that system for years, and I was there through the 3rd grade. Here's the thing, you can't really go to Montessori for just a "few" years, you really need to go all the way through in the system. I can remember kids leaving Montessori after the 6th grade, only to spend the 7th and 8th grade doing jack because they already knew it. After 2 years the entire time they spent in the system was wasted because public schools lag way behind.

My kids went there, very happy with the experience and the teachers.    They do learn social skills at Montessori and a love for learning.   Can't think of a better place, other than home, for kids in their formative years.    For us it was a valuable place and helped my kids excel later in life.  YMMV.

It really depends on your children.  I have four kids and all went through the Montessori schools for two years.  My 1st & 3rd born are highly motivated, self starters and they excelled in the program.  The other's aren't as motivated and the work at your own pace didn't suit them well, so we transitioned them to another private school.  So - it depends....

Try it out for a year and see how your child adapts.

I went at age 4-5.  Those two years did more for me than the next 6 years of elementary school.  But I also went there over 40 years ago, and our school was run by a European woman who had studied under Maria Montessori.