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I went to a Montessori school in the Netherlands and feel like it failed me. Just one data point and maybe it was just a bad school.

I have autism and nobody noticed or did anything about it until it was time to start preparing for high school in seventh grade. I had read all the books in the school library but was not able to spell and write. It was just way to easy for me to escape work I did not want to do.

We moved after I started high school and my sisters had to change school because of it. One of the first things they noticed at their new school is how incredibly lazy they where.

I am very happy working as a mailman but I do wonder what I would be doing now if I had learned how to study and learn at a younger age.


you definitely had a bad school. a trained montessori teacher would have noticed your challenges.


The study is about preschool (ages 3-6).


An open source website with digital skills lessons.

I'm a IT teacher in special education and got frustrated with the available materials and with my students having to log in everywhere to practice.

Pure HTML, CSS, Javascript. No cookies. You could even download the files from Github or download the site and it will still work.

I'm a pretty bad coder, but this is a lot of fun.


I'd love to see this. I'm a huge fan of the information availability the internet has brought and a firm believer that education is transforming into something we do of our own volition and in our own way, aided by freely available information online, and what you're working on sounds like potentially an excellent tool congruent with these ideas. Do you have something you could show yet?


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