Intercultural Montessori Language School

Intercultural Montessori is not the same school as Intercultura… clearly that negative review was written during the transition period of an old school to a new one and by someone with little tact. I knew people who went to the old school and still decided to send my son because of the value of immersion language education and the mulit-​cultural demographic.
This school has all of the hope, vision and growing pains of a newly formed school which is seeking to reinvent itself. My son has been there for a year. In my opinion, a school is best judged by its teachers and the teachers at Intercultural are absolutely STELLAR. His 6 hours in spanish immersion montessori and 2.5 hours in English are amazing. He had a bumpy time transitioning to montessori and his own discipline but he made the transition and has blossomed into a classroom leader. Montessori has turned out to be an excellent choice for my child’s learning style. My kindergartner tells me about isoceles triangles, the order of the solar system and tons of other things that I knew nothing about at his age!
No school is perfect. My only criticisms of the school are: the cost…(though it does have financial aid) and the location (its in oak park and as a city dweller the reverse commute kills us). I would be happy to talk to any parent about my positive experience.
*i recently heard they are opening a new location in the city*

Um, I was sad after reading the first review. Not knowing what sort of experiences others have had, my daughter seems to love it at Intercultural. It’s a wonderful departure for her from regular day care, and I love the fact that she is getting a healthy dose of the Japanese language every morning.
The teachers communicate well and are good at sending home what the children have been working on. My daughter just started at the beginning of November and is happy every morning that she attends school as opposed to not wanting to go to her previous day care.
Obviously I don’t have as much experience with the school as others do– I am interested to hear what others think. I give it 4 stars simply because it is super expensive. (As are all private schools of quality) We’re shelling out a lot of cash monies to read a bad review of this place… eeek.
Thought I’d update my review — Feb. 08 — my daughter does not attend this school any more. We took her out at the end of last school year. She seemed to be the one kid who couldn’t handle not understanding the language. She wouldn’t talk to, or hardly look at the (Japanese) teachers. It made me sad to take her out because I really wanted her to have the early understanding of another language. She also seemed to dig the Montessori learning techniques.
She’s super happy at her new school and seems much more comfortable. comfortable