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Elena's avatar

Beautiful Tom, thank you for sharing your thoughts.

I agree, it is so essential that we, as adults in a child's life - and even more so as teachers, recognise and work with our own bias, pre-conceptions and exspectations before we speak/act. When doing so we can offer the child the respect he/she deserves and the support he/she truly needs to develop and grow to potential.

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Guen Bradbury's avatar

Fascinating read. What drove the demographic change in your school between those two dates?

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Tom Brown's avatar

Check out my first article here, which talks in more detail about how that demographic change came about: https://marigoldmontessori.substack.com/p/montessori-as-a-colonizing-force

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