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“ You know what has a better long-term outcome than medication? Montessori.” KABOOM. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. WHY DOES MONTESSORI STOP AT 12YO?? I NEEDED IT JUST AS MUCH BETWEEN 13 AND 23 AS I DID BETWEEN 2 AND 12.
Just a theory, but my suspicion is that it has to do with not knowing how to treat teenagers within a system that encourages personal responsibility. Because people in the ranges of 13-22 are ready for an increasing level of responsibility that our legal and educational systems strongly discourage, making it difficult to know what to do with the 13-17 bracket in particular. I don’t know what the solution is, and I don’t know that Montessori will ever address it, unfortunately.
When I hear the things that teens outside the US are allowed/encouraged to do, it sometimes stuns me. And my generation isn’t even the one that was helicopter parented. Just, the base assumption of competence nearly everywhere else is so different from the hyper-controlling system we have. That hyper-control is part of the problem for disabled/neurodivergent teens, because we don’t and never have fit within the system in the first place. As the leash tightens on neurotypical/abled teens, it chokes the rest of us because it treats non-conformity as an attempt to rebel. Instead of, say, as an inability to conform.
There’s not a lot I would not have done if a Montessori school had been available. Montessori around here - in lovely Los Angeles - means preschool. Period. SMH.
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squimble-the-slug-witch replied to your quote “A person with an ADHD nervous system has never been able to use the…”
“ You know what has a better long-term outcome than medication? Montessori.” KABOOM. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. WHY DOES MONTESSORI STOP AT 12YO?? I NEEDED IT JUST AS MUCH BETWEEN 13 AND 23 AS I DID BETWEEN 2 AND 12.
Just a theory, but my suspicion is that it has to do with not knowing how to treat teenagers within a system that encourages personal responsibility. Because people in the ranges of 13-22 are ready for an increasing level of responsibility that our legal and educational systems strongly discourage, making it difficult to know what to do with the 13-17 bracket in particular. I don’t know what the solution is, and I don’t know that Montessori will ever address it, unfortunately.
When I hear the things that teens outside the US are allowed/encouraged to do, it sometimes stuns me. And my generation isn’t even the one that was helicopter parented. Just, the base assumption of competence nearly everywhere else is so different from the hyper-controlling system we have. That hyper-control is part of the problem for disabled/neurodivergent teens, because we don’t and never have fit within the system in the first place. As the leash tightens on neurotypical/abled teens, it chokes the rest of us because it treats non-conformity as an attempt to rebel. Instead of, say, as an inability to conform.
There’s not a lot I would not have done if a Montessori school had been available. Montessori around here - in lovely Los Angeles - means preschool. Period. SMH.
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