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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 499630" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>The apparent conflict is in the fact that J is not "neurotypical". If he were, I'd have no hesitation about Waldorf or other alternative systems at this point. But I fear that with the nature of ADHD - the need for structure, for routine, the difficulty in being a "self starter" when it comes to certain tasks - the kind of environment he is now in may actually serve him best in terms of him learning reading and writing. I guess I fear that if he is in too "free" a system, he would not learn these kinds of things very well... I do know of a couple of people here who put their ADHD children in Montessori schools and it just didn't work for them; they said the children couldn't use the freedom properly, needed more structure.</p><p>My other fear is that J will get to hate school and start refusing to go. </p><p>The problem, I guess, to put it in a nutshell, is that the choice here in France is between the public sector which has a very dry, to me boring curriculum that I would frankly hate to have to undergo myself - just French grammar and maths - and the very alternative sector. There is nothing like a British primary school, which is somewhere in between the two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 499630, member: 11227"] The apparent conflict is in the fact that J is not "neurotypical". If he were, I'd have no hesitation about Waldorf or other alternative systems at this point. But I fear that with the nature of ADHD - the need for structure, for routine, the difficulty in being a "self starter" when it comes to certain tasks - the kind of environment he is now in may actually serve him best in terms of him learning reading and writing. I guess I fear that if he is in too "free" a system, he would not learn these kinds of things very well... I do know of a couple of people here who put their ADHD children in Montessori schools and it just didn't work for them; they said the children couldn't use the freedom properly, needed more structure. My other fear is that J will get to hate school and start refusing to go. The problem, I guess, to put it in a nutshell, is that the choice here in France is between the public sector which has a very dry, to me boring curriculum that I would frankly hate to have to undergo myself - just French grammar and maths - and the very alternative sector. There is nothing like a British primary school, which is somewhere in between the two. [/QUOTE]
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