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Post by penguinopolipitese on Jan 30, 2009 16:19:28 GMT -5
Did anyone else go to montessori? I guess for those who didn't I should explain... it's kind of like preschool I guess... usually at the place I went to you had to be over about 4 years old. You start learning reading and writing and math and other stuff. But it's not exactly like school. It's more like if school was a game and there was no pressure or tests... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_method
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Post by betahat on Jan 30, 2009 17:29:27 GMT -5
I didn't but my aunt was a teacher at a Montessori for some years. The(?) Montessori school in Toronto is right by my parents house near Dupont and Spadina. I like the idea of it. My preschool was just a litany of forced naps, celery sticks with cheese whiz, apples with peanut butter, and general misery.
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Post by Groink on Jan 30, 2009 17:42:30 GMT -5
Really? I recall LOVING pre-school. Get this: it was called "Kiddie Karson Kollege". No joke...KKK. It was at Fort Carson in Colorado. Guess they didn't really think things through with that name.
But honestly, with the exception of peeing my pants once, I had a great time there. Coloring, playing with instruments (the Army band came over and let us try out their instruments and played a few songs), tying shoes, zipping coats. I think we had interpretive dance for our "graduation". Right hand up, left hand up, spin around.
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Post by Nikki on Jan 30, 2009 18:14:32 GMT -5
Right hand up, left hand up, spin around. Care to recreate that for us and make a record of it? I didn't go to preschool. Un-required schooling at the age of 3???! Horrendous.... I stayed at home and learned how to be sheltered and antisocial.
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Post by betahat on Jan 30, 2009 19:17:57 GMT -5
^I have a 20 month younger brother so I had no need of other friends at that stage. Mine was called "Sunshine pre-school" and I think we sang "You are my sunshine" every freakin day. I wish they had let us play with instruments.
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Post by xandra on Jan 30, 2009 19:50:35 GMT -5
My friend went to Montessori and apparently they taught them how to fold laundry to "improve their motor skills". Likely story!
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Jan 31, 2009 0:07:59 GMT -5
no that's prolly true. Montessori encourages kids to be responsible and develop lots of skills. although I never did that exact kind of thing.
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Post by xandra on Jan 31, 2009 0:12:34 GMT -5
I just tease her that her parents sent her there so she'd get an early start on doing household chores.
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Post by EA Observer on Jan 31, 2009 12:56:00 GMT -5
It's school for the rich snobs or elitists, mostly the white ones, of course.
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Jan 31, 2009 17:03:34 GMT -5
hmm I went but I was kind of poor...
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Post by rob on Feb 1, 2009 4:29:49 GMT -5
I did pre-school in the phils ..... prob the exact opposite of Montessori in that ass-whooping was a class subject. Each day began with a prayer, a thorough check of our fingernails, then 3 hrs of ass whoopings. At least I got to sip fanta in a plastic bag at the end of the day And yeah, I agree, Montessori is for the rich kids
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Post by rob on Feb 1, 2009 4:33:08 GMT -5
My friend went to Montessori and apparently they taught them how to fold laundry to "improve their motor skills". Wow. I've heard that the kids in Pakistan's Montessori system make rugs.... and the kids in Taiwan fuse circuit boards. A really interesting study of cultural interpretation within the Montessori system.
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Post by cm on Feb 1, 2009 22:42:44 GMT -5
No, my family couldn't afford pre-school, and I'm still doing academically better than my peers who did.
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Post by Groink on Feb 1, 2009 22:53:50 GMT -5
No, my family couldn't afford pre-school, and I'm still doing academically better than my peers who did. Clearly, pre-schools are destroying the minds of children everywhere.
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Post by xandra on Feb 2, 2009 20:21:02 GMT -5
My friend went to Montessori and apparently they taught them how to fold laundry to "improve their motor skills". Wow. I've heard that the kids in Pakistan's Montessori system make rugs.... and the kids in Taiwan fuse circuit boards. A really interesting study of cultural interpretation within the Montessori system. Woah, making rugs and fusing circuit boards? That's hardcore. Now I'm so curious to know what they do in Montessori schools around the world...
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