Bunyan

I go to Washington Montessori and I can confirm that the Middle School (Grades 7-8) and most Upper Elementary (Grades 4-6) teachers only care for the paycheck. The only teacher that actually cared about our learning experience was let go last year for not having teaching credentials. The HS teachers are for the most part wonderful, and will help when you need it, but can be difficult for student with special needs, which brings me to my next point. The students with special needs are treated horribly by the current math teacher in the Middle School. On multiple accounts I've watched her be demeaning to the kids with disabilities and ridicule them for not understanding subjects that she didn't explain thoroughly. Multiple students have reported her to admin, to which they did nothing. Which goes to show how horrible the administrators can be. I personally had an awful experience with an admin who no longer works here. I found out that she was talking bad about me to other students and calling me a bad influence. This supposed "bad influence" on the other hand, has all A's and takes honors classes, while the student she was talking bad to was at a third grade math level? All of the teachers have favorites and when people point it out, they pretend to be oblivious. My next point of why you shouldn't let your kids go here is the elective teachers. When you see the electives that our school offers, your first reaction is going to probably be that they offer so many good classes, but most of the classes, it's assignments that make no sense with the course. The High schooler's for the most part don't get enough free work time, which is something that Montessori advertises a lot of. The freshmen have a maximum of an hour and thirty minutes a week, while I've seen seniors with a full free day just to work, and the teachers for the classes I've taken so far, have figured out that they can take all of our time if they desire. It's completely unfair and unjustified. I wouldn't recommend putting your children here, especially at a young age such as Kindergarten or preschool, because if they try to leave for a public school, they won't be able to adjust. It's not that there's that much more freedom from public school, it's the fact they treat you different. If you plan on putting your kids here because they have special needs It's a horrible choice. I've seen a special needs teacher snap and yell at an autistic kid like he was a dog. I don't recommend and never will.