We enrolled our daughter in Montessori school last October. We were having problems in our current school blah blah blah. She loves it. She fits in well. She has lots of friends. And yes, quite a few of the things they do are a little unconventional, but that's why we wanted her to go there. . . right? I got an email yesterday scheduling a parent teacher conference with us. Nothing out of the ordinary. Then, I got to work this morning and I had an email from the director containing a pdf that said it was Eliza's progress report to look over before the conference. No problem. I opened this thing up this afternoon and it is 16 pages. She's five! To top it off, some of the things they mentioned are just plain crazy. This is real.
Sort/classify objects according to attribute
Knobbed cylinder A - Practiced
Knobbed cylinder B - Practiced
Fill in metal insets with top to bottom, left to right lines
Circle - Practiced
Square - Presented
What is this crap? Can she read? Is she dumb? If she's mastered Rhyming, is she ready for college. There's even a category for basic skills and one of them was polishing silver. Come on! She won't get a lot of good out of that one at my house. This school has been great for her, but it's driving me insane!
I just want to let you know that that's the most retarded thing I have ever heard of!!! lol! Polishing silver?? Seriously...do the children of America need to know this to get into college and have a future? NO...HELL NO...and if they do..as their parents...we're screwed!!! lol!
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