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My childs experience with this montessori school was horrible.I truly believe that it did more damage than good. My child had a total of 4 different lead teachers and seven different assistant teachers in approx. half a year. There was a cold manner some teachers used with my child. One of his teachers told me that while changing for a summer event outside he was acting up so first his place in line was threatened to be taken away and he straightened up....but even after he had decided to obey the teacher and stand up straight to get dressed as he was told , the teacher went even further and told me that his clothing was denied to him for a time period while the other children got dressed ""because he needed to see"" were the words the teacher used. I personally dont think that food, drink, clothing or acceptance should ever be denied to a child Those are not privelages that should be allowed or taken away at the teachers transgression they are human rights! I should have listened to my child when after the first week of being in the same teachers class he hid behind me when he saw her coming down the hall and started crying. There are a few teachers who are absolute angels there, their hearts lie with the children, If your teacher is loving and fair then your child will quickly warm up (in a matter of weeks) if there is something wrong with their environment ...they will never like going there. Also, while the menu is healthy, many times children dont eat it because it consists of a lot of vegetables(most kids dont eat veggies very well), so they just go hungry and wait to eat until snack or until something is served that they enjoy eating. They probably eat a lot at home, mine did. I did not agree with the tone of voice used with the children at times(I would hear it passing by classrooms or in the halls during the day), the lack of emotional attatchment to the children (will be reflected in your children around the teachers, with mine he was afraid of her), and methods of discipline used with them. I feel as if my child was expected to grow up much faster than he was ready for. His new school and I are working on trying to teach him that it is o.k. to be himself, he will not be punished for it. Looking back now I see that he felt the unacceptance of who he was by his teachers. they teach young children to all do things a particular way, to be uniform, sit in circle all the same, carry work, roll a rug, a certain way, walk in line a certain way, which are all o.k., they are needed for school, but shoud be balanced with time to be themselves, to create, to imagine, to form who they are in the inside and believe what they formed is good. It is not balanced in this school. Look at the classrooms, there is hardly anything if nothing to just imagine or just create. Everything is about the work which has strict guidelines to follow when doing it. If children are spending most of their day following somone elses guidlines there is no room to foster the growth and self acceptance or idividuality. The only time they were allowed to think freely was when it came to choosing works, in this they were allowed to gravitate to which work they wanted to do the way they chose fit as long as the work they chose was developmentally appropriate. But even each work has a series of rules and guidlines that they had to follow in order to help foster their learning...but again learning achieved, childlike imagination, whimsical artfullness and natural playfullness lost. Their rooms have no dress-up, no art centers, no toys that a child can freely imagine with.
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