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Are they really not using montessori methods? Or is your critique more along the lines of the bigger driver for montessori outcomes isn't the montessori method

• bcrosby95 4y ago
  That they aren't actually using montessori.
  • caminante 4y ago
    Do you have criteria though? According to this article [0], it's pretty vague (Montessori isn't trademarked and tough to enforce) and not all schools stick to the "classic" Montessori methods, which, I guess there's a handful of certification bodies (in the US). To this point, > Out of more than 4,000 so-called Montessori schools across the country, only 1,250 are affiliated with the American Montessori Society (and only 204 are AMS-accredited) and about 220 are recognized by AMI. [0] https://hechingerreport.org/will-the-real-montessori-please-stand-up/ https://hechingerreport.org/will-the-real-montessori-please-... edits: re-vamped text
    • bcrosby95 4y ago
      It was based upon talking with the people that ran the place, discussing with parents why they put them in the place (all were high achievement academic reasons), and discussing these issues with my mother in law, who was an early child development college teacher for 20 years and ran a preschool lab where they taught their college students, hands on, how to be preschool teachers.