This PDF is an excerpt from The Montessori Way by Tim Seldin and Paul Esptein.
Your children have been in Montessori all their lives. They love school and learn enthusiastically. Montessori has been the perfect match, but your children are approaching the age where they will have to leave Montessori if their school doesn’t do something soon! And so you ask, “Why aren’t there any Secondary Montessori programs in our town? What would it take to start a middle school class at our school?” Most Americans have the impression that Montessori is just for early childhood. Even though Montessori schools have spread all over the world during the last century, most schools in the United States stop after kindergarten. Some schools run through sixth grade, but Secondary Montessori schools are very rare. This is beginning to change as more and more Montessori schools open elementary classes, and many have either opened or are exploring the possibility of developing middle school programs.
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