The correct spelling is Montessori. I went to such a school for K-6. Schools vary somewhat, however, my mother has a Masters in Physics, my dad has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, and they were comfortable with me in the system. It was the Montessori environment that introduced me to programming in first grade on a TI-99A; I am now a professional software engineer at a Fortune 100 company and still remember my excitement of working with TI Basic (I wrote about it for my college entrance essay). Were it not for the open environment of Montessori education, I might never have been exposed to programming (even though my parents both did extensive work with Fortran IV and I have my mom's Fortran manuals from the 70's!)
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The correct spelling is Montessori. I went to such a school for K-6. Schools vary somewhat, however, my mother has a Masters in Physics, my dad has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, and they were comfortable with me in the system. It was the Montessori environment that introduced me to programming in first grade on a TI-99A; I am now a professional software engineer at a Fortune 100 company and still remember my excitement of working with TI Basic (I wrote about it for my college entrance essay). Were it not for the open environment of Montessori education, I might never have been exposed to programming (even though my parents both did extensive work with Fortran IV and I have my mom's Fortran manuals from the 70's!)
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) has a set of computer/IT ethics. http://www.acm.org/