Posted on 09/12/2013 7:48:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
And any discipline is too much.
I did some work for the local branch of those hell holes... run by the wife of the mayor at the time.
Montessori schools work like some of the ivy league universities. They do IQ testing and only take students who are bright enough to succeed in spite of neglect and lack of meaningful guidance. Claim credit in spite of minimal instructions given.
Children should never start school.
My daughter ended up waiting until she was 6 going on 7 a few weeks after starting.
Now they have been pressuring us to advance her a grade or two but I wont do it. In my view emotional maturity is much more important than academics. She can always make up not starting college or whatever a few years earlier but she can never make up the lost years of being a kid.
Nonsense. I - all my siblings were reading at age 4. The Queen Elizabeth I was writing in three languages at seven. Mozart was composing piano pieces at the same age.
Children can start learning when they are encouraged - of course, if it’s a crappy public school, they should not go at all.
Except that most kids need some sort of learning well before age five.
My daughter knows her letters, numbers, and is starting to learn words at age 4.
Montessori is wrong, because it tries to hijack play and make it into “learning”. Kids are entitled to play, just for fun, and it should be left alone.
I have to agree. My parents started me in kindergarten at exactly 4 1/2 yrs old in January 1947. It was an experimental program. The school administration soon realized that after one year in kindergarten, we were still too young for first grade so they created a temporary 6 month “transition” class for us. Then they went back to the 5 years old age requirement.
The first few days in kindergarten were rough for me, I remember I tried to run away home one day. The janitor (a wonderful man, I still remember his name) caught me going out the front door and carried me back to the classroom!
My nephew’s oldest child was a boy born on August 26th. He is very bright and has a good personality. Already at age 3 years, 9 months, he passed the so-called screening for being ready for Kindergarten. The next year he passed again. But the parents kept him back so when he began school he was 6 years and 7 days old.
It was a good decision because he is physically a smaller child, and needed to grow a bit to match the other kids.
There is no one size fits all solution for ever single child.
Just like everything else in life.
I don’t think that HRH or Wolfgang were learning their skills at a public school as we know them. Wolfgang got his education from his father; Elizabeth I had tutors from Cambridge.
Experts ... right. I started kindergarten when I was 5, but it helped that I was already reading things like the newspaper at that time. One size does NOT fit all kids.
From Human Growth and Development (1980), kids started young do better till about third grade, age 10. Then students who started at six pass them with better grades, more originality, and less anxiety and neurosis throughout life.
What?? No free baby sitting service with meals included???
And no “pocket” is turned down...
OK.
So, as long as they get gay sex ed from day one.
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“Montessori is wrong,”
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Well, most any early ed schooling can mask itself as Montessori.
I am referring to a few that I had experience with back in the eighties, and there was a minimum age, the same as kindergarten. They were accredited by the American Montessori Society.
My wife even started a small business, producing teaching aids. We sold them all over the US and other countries.
One was a set of eight land and water forms, another was a farm set. We also produced a grammar set for teaching the parts of speech. Montessori can go all the way through high school.
It all depends on the child.
I started kindergarten right after turning 5, and could have safely skipped a few grades without missing anything.
My younger son, OTOH, was one of the older kids in his class, so theoretically was more mature. He never did well in school.
“Montessori schools work like some of the ivy league universities. They do IQ testing and only take students who are bright”
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That IS NOT a Montessori school, but con artist masking as Montessori.
I was 4 when I started kindergarten in 1965. Granted, I turned 5 only 3 weeks later and was 5 when I started 1st grade. 2 years later, my brother also started kindergarten at 4 and didn't turn 5 until 3 months later and also started 1st grade at 5. We both turned out just fine.
Oh really? The only function barley has in my daughter's life is on her dinner plate.
You didn't use to start school until you 6 or some almost 7!
As I commented in another post, I started at age 4 and that was 1965. And I went to Catholic school.
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