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hey,
i use to think that montessori was a great way to teach a child. it's kind of like the child learning at their own pace. i liked the one on one intereaction but it wasn't enough.
my god daughter recently left a montessori school here in nyc. she attended from the 1st grade until the fifth grade. there was only one teacher with an assistant. she had about 17 kids in the whole school. all of different ages and different levels.
me and her moms started noticing that she was having difficulties in all areas of her homework. the teachings are very nontraditional. when we took her to test for another school, she failed because alot of the material she did not know, the teacher never covered.
So then we place her in a private school and she was very far behind the kids in her grade, which was the 5th. for some reason she could not grasp what the teacher was teaching.
so unfortuately she will be left behind. just last week, we took her to get another assessment test and the test put her knowledge at 3rd grade level and she is 10 years old.
her mom is upset because she feels like the montessori school helped hinder her in her learning.
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