A Student's Testimonial- Very Damaging to Young Children
- Anonymous
- Mar 25, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 23, 2024
I went to this school from 3-5th grade. It was a very traumatizing experience. I attended around 2010-2013 ish so I am not sure if the school has changed it a policies at all. When I attended there were many things that happened, which a lot of people wouldn't believe, but I will give an example of a few... At lunch we had a sugar free policy, my sister who also attended in 4th grade got her Key Lime Pie yogurt taken from her and thrown away by a staff member. The staff also made us stand in lines and remain completely silent, one time my sisters classmates were talking in line and so the gym teacher at the time took them outside without a coat or boots (when it was 10 degrees out with snow on the ground) and made them run suicide outside for about 20-30 minutes.
Another example of an experience I had that really traumatized me was at lunch when we had assigned seats and were told to be silent, a child spilled his water. I laughed, because I was about 8 years old and thought it was kind of funny, and one of the "hall monitors" If you would call him, forced me to sit in front of all of 4th, 5th and 6th graders and proceeded to yell at me. Imagine, a grown man yelling at an 8 year old girl about me "bullying" another child for simply laughing at him spilling his water. I was crying in front of the whole lunch and he said, "if you want to cry, I will give you a real reason to cry." Then threatened to send me to the principles office and preceded to yell at me all lunch hour.
Additionally, when we went to gym class, the workouts were very intense. One time I forgot a water bottle. I asked the gym teacher if I could drink from the water fountain and he said no. I then passed out (it was 80 degrees and sunny) and the assistant gym teacher saw. She then lifted me by my arms and dragged me with my feet on the ground to the principles office. They have me a single Dixie cup of water, let me sit there for about 10 minutes before sending me back to class. My parents were not notified that I had passed out.
On top of this, on the academic side, I had came into the school at the beginning of 3rd grade, and previously attended a different Montessori school. I had not yet learned long division and when I got to MMS, instead of the teacher teaching me long division, she yelled at me for not knowing it already and made me feel extremely stupid, before finally teaching me. The teachers are not patient at all with children who are not prefect. I am now a college student at the University of North Carolina and was recently diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia and a math based learning disorder. So unless you are a perfect student, and even if you are I would not recommend this school. It is very damaging to young children and how they perceive their ability to learn. Additionally, in 4th grade, they put us into A and B groups when they taught us math, and they very intentionally pointed out which group was the "dumb" group. These are just some examples of what me and others have experienced while attending this school, and I still remember a lot of it because it was traumatic and I am now 20 years old and the way I view my ability to learn is still effected by how I was treated back when I was 8. If you care about your children, do not send them here. I was too young to know right from wrong back then, and my parents did not know how terribly we were treated, otherwise they would have unenrolled me asap.
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