CMS is a place where modern education and old fashioned values intersect. I appreciate the fact that not only are our children expected to live up to the school's principles, but we parents are as well. In this community, the parents are partners, not customers. And sometimes I feel like the parents learn as much as the kids do.
A word about achievement. We send our children to CMS not because we want them to be smarter than other kids, or because we want them reading or doing math earlier or better. This is not a race. We stretch ourselves to afford private Montessori school because we want our children to be happy and well-rounded, and to become lifelong learners who make a positive contribution to the world. We believe the 3 to 6 age range is the most important stage of this journey. Sure, in due time, they would have learned reading, writing, math, science, music, swimming, citizenship, cultural appreciation, responsibility. But there's nothing like seeing their faces light up with all of this learning, starting in preschool.
