A Montessori school and Ithaca: the liberal parents certainly deserve what they're getting, but do their innocent children?
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The Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithaca (EACMSI), which costs up to $18,000 a year to attend, is currently one of the last schools in the nation to still be imposing such strict COVID measures, The Free Press reported.
Dr. Beth Stein, who pulled her kids out of EACMSI and put them in private school because of the strict measures, told The Free Press she initially welcomed the precautions, but they became overly burdensome as time went on.
“I could tolerate most of the stuff — the teachers in N95s and face shields while standing behind plexiglass barriers, the 12 feet of distance for band members, the ban on singing ‘Happy Birthday’ in class,” she said. “I just wanted them to end the outdoor masking.”
The board-certified doctor also claimed her students were almost kicked out of the school after she complained about outdoor masking.
The school doesn’t have a cafeteria and students eat lunch in their classrooms.
Stein said some days her 13-year-old daughter’s teacher would play movies during lunch, but on other days they ate in complete silence. If a student dared to ask their teacher a question during lunch, the kid would first have to put on their mask in order to speak, and then could take it off again to go back to eating.
Sometimes, teachers took the mandated silent lunch as an opportunity to keep teaching, the mom said.
Stein’s 10-year-old daughter said kids in her class wanted so badly to converse during lunch that they invented their own sign language to communicate.
“We just really wanted to talk,” the girl said.
The school, which enrolls about 220 kids between ages 3 to about 14 or 15, says its “pedagogy is child-centered, hands-on, individualized, and serves the development of the whole child—physical, social, emotional, cognitive.”
Sentencing a child to a Montessori school has always been a form of child abuse, but any parent who’s kept her kid in this environment for three years should be jailed.
