Posted on 11/21/2024 5:28:31 PM PST by grundle
Elon Musk’s pre-kindergarten Montessori school in Texas can now open its doors.
The school, which has been in the works since last year, received its initial permit from the Texas childcare regulator on Thursday
The first Ad Astra pupils in Bastrop will be between three and six years old and attend a pre-Kindegarten school that focuses on exploration and on tasks like coloring, collage-making, and studying maps and globes.
its approach to learning will revolve around exploration, with toddlers learning how to button things, color and draw, collage, construct words, and study globes and maps. Outside, there is a basketball court, and toddlers will be able to play with tricycles and balls, according to the documents. The curriculum itself—which entails periods for “work” and “play” and has children learning to sweep, apologize to others, and learn how to “solve a conflict”—is inspired by the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs, two psychologists and educators, to “teach young people to become responsible, respectful, and resourceful members of our community,” according to Ad Astra’s permit application. As a Montessori school, the school will likely also emphasize self-directed learning, hands-on experiences, and collaborative play.
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Boys will not be learning how to insert tampons.
What? No toy rocketry?
You can and should learn these basic life skills at home.
I have every expectation that those who enter will be free of the Woke Mind Virus, and any that attempt to introduce it will be escorted to the door posthaste.
Reeling, writhing, and fainting in coils...
Yeah and I like the use of Elon’s term “woke min virus”. It’s very astute.
Woke ‘mind’ virus I mean.
Montessori schools are better than anything public schools offer.
Montessori school are the best schools
For me, public schools have always been sort of this mysterious place on the far side of the Moon. I only went to Catholic school (back when genders were segregated into separate schools). One consequence of attending an all-boys Catholic school? Dress code — business formal, every day, never a casual day. Dress shirt, dress slacks, dress socks, dress shoes, dress belt, tie, and either a suit jacket or the school sweater. You got used to it, but it was still a PITA.
I’m not anti Montessori.
However our kids should learn basic life skills from their parents. Particularly at pre school ages. Imo
Sounds like a public school. Make them SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, and STUDY. Then, if they behave, they can have time to play.
Either we get out of the Leftist mindset of ‘education’, which is more like some weird ‘social science experient’, or we’ll continue to have the Chinese, Russians, and even the Idiot Europeans RUNNING CIRCLES around us academically. If the kids aren’t reading fluently and doing long division by Age 6, then the school is doing more harm to them than good.
Schools are run by individuals and that makes some better than others and some worse. At least that’s the way it used to be when bureaucratic rules didn’t force conformity as it seems to today. One more vote for taking down the federal department of education.
Back when husband was in elementary school in Chicago in the 50’s, his school had the ability to make decisions for him separate from any of his classmates. Because of his tests, he was allowed to not attend classes every Friday so that his mother could take him to “enrichment” activities instead. Besides things like frequent museum trips, he was sent to a local college for language and math lessons.
I can’t believe there was any general public school rule that encouraged that. Seems more likely that individual administrators could get away with decisions to support gifted students in ways that would never be allowed today.
Today’s policies seem, in fact, more interested in destroying the gifted for fear of emotionally damaging the ones raised in such a way that they won’t succeed in a competitive society. And when policies like that become forced on every school in every city in every state, they minimize the liklihood that talented students will emerge from the pack to lead and to make scientific progress.
One of the reasons I adore Trump is that I see this man standing in the way of the destruction of the best and the brightest and using his own money and brains to find the people and the methods to turn around the charging behemoth of wokeness. And he’s using people like Musk to back him up. For the first time in years, I have real hope.
Musk’s support of pre-school is brilliant. He’s doing for the gifted what the 60’s rebels in Chicago did for the destruction of society. Thoughtfully and with purpose. I’m absolutely awed by this new Dynamic Duo.
Many young parents and their parents no longer know them. Our culture has become screen-addicted.
...in Alice's Restaurant.
It doesn't have to be an "either-or" proposition. It can be "both-and" for the children of young families who transplanted away from where they grew up to work at SpaceX or similar, hence no Grandmom, aunts and uncles on hand to provide several trusted role models when children are young.
Many such methods exist and have been tried in the public schools, where individuality has been incrementally sued out of existence. There used to be "educational tracks" for academic-oriented kids, trade-oriented kids, office worker skills, etc. No more. Now, DEI believes that skills and excellence are racist and must be not just eliminated, but punished.
I’ve known a few young men and women who went to Montesorri schools. In just one family, there is a heart doctor, a English and French teacher at a private school, and the youngest an architect (he also has a degree in history). The others are all high-achievers as well.
Of course, all their parents were successful and expected the best from their children so their success may be more due to involved parents than the type of school they attended.
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