{"id":11649,"date":"2015-11-17T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/?p=11649"},"modified":"2018-06-21T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:27:40","slug":"everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-a-montessori-school-but-were-afraid-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-a-montessori-school-but-were-afraid-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About a Montessori School&#8230;But Were Afraid to Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAunt Martha says Montessori is a cult? Is that true?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Montessori allow kids to do anything they want? A laissez-faire approach?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard Montessori classrooms are so rigid and strict you can hear a pin drop. Is that true?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friend sends her child to a Montessori school and loves it, but she has warned me that not all Montessori schools are the same. How will I know if a school is an authentic Montessori school?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answers to the questions respectively are no, no, no, and read on!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning: Proceed with Caution!<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Montessori did not copyright, or patent her name, and therefore, anyone can call a school \u201cMontessori\u201d so how do parents know if the school they are visiting is an authentic Montessori program?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A real Montessori school has highly trained teachers, specially designed learning materials, and purposefully prepared classrooms to help your child<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to learn.<\/li>\n<li>Become a compassionate member of a learning community.<\/li>\n<li>Develop independence and initiative.<\/li>\n<li>Learn problem-solving skills.<\/li>\n<li>Be creative.<\/li>\n<li>Foster an analytical mind.<\/li>\n<li>And most importantly, develop a lifelong love of learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are these the qualities you want your child to have? If you do, you\u2019re in the right place. Montessori schools offer these opportunities and more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAunt Martha says Montessori is a cult? Is that true?\u201d \u201cDoes Montessori allow kids to do anything they want? A laissez-faire approach?\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve heard Montessori classrooms are so rigid and strict you can hear a pin drop. Is that true?\u201d \u201cMy friend sends her child to a Montessori school and loves it, but she has warned me that not all Montessori schools are the same. How will I know if a school is an authentic Montessori school?\u201d The answers to the questions respectively are no,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montessori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11763,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions\/11763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raintreemontessori.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}