MCS Families – Dave DeHarde

By Al Daniel

After winning the 2018 Chili Cook-off (his Reggae chili recipe won by one point), Dave DeHarde was too under the weather to defend his crown the next year. (As it happened, the 2019 competition culminated in a three-way tie.)

MCS Families – Sinem Degerli

By Al Daniel

So far, snakes are the Degerlis’ definitive symbol of living out the Montessori Method at home.

MCS Families – Jen Tobolski

By Al Daniel

If any schools are going to have faculty members looking up to their peers the way newer and younger students are expected to shadow theirs, a Montessori setting is bound to be one of them.

MCS Families – Michelle Reader

By Al Daniel

Doors, roofs and walls can be a nuisance to the Herbert-Reader family. Fortunately for their sake, those barriers tend to feel thin, and are a complete nonfactor regularly enough to satisfy their outside yearnings.

MCS Families – Rochelle Hayes

By Al Daniel

Along the Durham-Chapel Hill borderline, the names Hayes and Hale mesh with Montessori education like Ben and Jerry with ice cream. Like Disney and Pixar with computer-animated family blockbusters. Like Barnes and Noble with book sales.