Brooklyn Hts Montessori Expansion Under Way
Construction has started on the former fire patrol station on Dean Street that the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School purchased a couple years ago, and a representative for the school says the plan is to have the space ready to go at some point next year. The building sits directly behind the school’s main Bergen Street…
Construction has started on the former fire patrol station on Dean Street that the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School purchased a couple years ago, and a representative for the school says the plan is to have the space ready to go at some point next year. The building sits directly behind the school’s main Bergen Street facility—which is also seeing a renovation that will be complete by the end of the summer—and, when it’s operational, will allow for the enrollment of around 40 additional students.
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anyone who is not wealthy and chooses to spend 15k+ per year for kindergarten is not very smart. bankruptcy must loom very large on your horizon.
“Jaguar, I can tell you that paying 15K per year for school does not mean one is “wealthy”.”
Right. You could also be dumb.
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Jaguar, I can tell you that paying 15K per year for school does not mean one is “wealthy”.
:-/ maybe youre right tho. still sounds nutso to me.
*rob*
Actually Bank Street method (Columbia University teachers college) and Reggio Emilia Approach are found in NYC public schools, and all share similar characteristics in discovery learning. Our daughter is in a Reggio Emilia preschool, and our 12 year old boy spent 6-7 years in Montessori.
In our experience, the primary difference is Montessori encourages more peer tutoring and working in small groups (one kid gets it, teaches 2-3 others).
Jaguar, I can tell you that paying 15K per year for school does not mean one is “wealthy”.
Montessori is great for the kids it is good for; however, it isn’t the right style for all kids. The problem in NYC is that there are no public montessori schools like there are in some other states, particularly in the midwest, so what you wind up with here are these wonderful preschools for the wealthy. Montessori schools in NYC, as far as I am aware, cost a MINIMUM of $15k per school year, and I believe the one in Brooklyn Hts is more than $20k. That doesn’t even include extended hours.
When I was a kid, I would have given anything to go to school in a fire house!
New agey or not, this is a great example of historic preservation in action.
So whats the take on Montessori?
Is it effective, or is it a lot of iffy-butty new-age hand wavey nonsense?