{"id":336,"date":"2019-03-25T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=336"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:56:24","slug":"post-and-courier-south-carolina-has-a-lot-of-montessori-schools-are-they-a-good-idea-for-your-kid","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/post-and-courier-south-carolina-has-a-lot-of-montessori-schools-are-they-a-good-idea-for-your-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post and Courier: &#8220;South Carolina has a lot of Montessori schools. Are they a good idea for your kid?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 25, 2019 | Photograph courtesy of The Post and Courier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an editorial parenting column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\">The Post and Courier<\/a> writes about the distinguishing factors of a Montessori education as a response to popular questions from parents. The piece cites the Riley Institute&#8217;s 2018 report findings that South Carolina had more Montessori programs than any other state with the exception of California.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My daughter came home from school one day with a piece of black yarn taped to her shirt. I started to worry.<\/p>\n<p>It was our first week sending our kids to a public Montessori school, and while I knew a bit about the educational model, the mildly ominous symbol raised a question that I know other parents have asked before: Is this some kind of cult?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p>I can now report with some confidence that, no, Montessori schooling is not a cult. They just do things differently.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columnists\/south-carolina-has-a-lot-of-montessori-schools-are-they-a-good-idea-for-your\/article_abb54aee-49b8-11e9-8b48-4b21c38bb9f1.html\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an editorial parenting column, The Post and Courier writes about the distinguishing factors of a Montessori education as a response to popular questions from parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":388,"template":"","update-categories":[2,13],"class_list":["post-336","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-media-coverage","furman-update-category-montessori"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}