Greenoaks Montessori: You Are My School

By Arielle Ridley

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984566577

Arielle Ridley

Arielle is a Montessori Directress, a mother, grandmother, and devoted animal lover. Her life - and this chronicle of Rubie - intertwines all of these passions. Rubie overcomes many health ordeals, and with Arielle’s love becomes healthy and able to comfort her beloved humans. Rubie attends school every day with the pre-school aged children who welcomed her as a tiny puppy at Arielle’s Montessori School. She regularly visits the aged and infirm, whom she comforts in her role as a Service Dog. Arielle and Rubie learn how to travel locally, with Rubie in Arielle’s bicycle basket, as well as internationally on all modes of travel, including planes. Rubie is welcomed at the finest restaurants, and accompanies Arielle everywhere. Arielle depicts her ground-breaking inquiries about how to travel with American Service Dogs to officials in foreign countries. Arielle researches the requirements necessary for officially designated Service Dogs to travel with their family or trainer and also how to transport necessary canine medications.

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Copyright © 2018 by Arielle Ridley.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2018913886

ISBN:       Hardcover       978-1-9845-6659-1

                 Softcover          978-1-9845-6658-4

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Rev. date: 11/19/2018

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CONTENTS

Chapter One    1980

Chapter Two

Chapter Three    Greenoaks Sole Proprietorship - 1994

Chapter Four    2014

Chapter Five    2015

CHAPTER ONE

1980

From the beginning, I had wanted to start my own school! I come from a family that does best in their own companies. As I was finishing my teaching degree, I told the nuns I was going to start my own school. I was told to get some experience first.

My two best girlfriends were both teachers, although not in Montessori. We began the process together to start our own school. All three of us had jobs, families and children, so we met at night. From the beginning, we divided up the responsibilities with what we could each do.

The first challenge was getting the financing together. None of us had money and we were not asking for our husbands’ help. My husband was against the whole idea! In order to even approach the banks we needed a year’s budget and a written proposal. B., one of my partners, began writing it. It was my task to put together the exact costs for all the Montessori equipment for the class. K., my other partner, began on the budget. This was a first for all of us!

Finally we were ready to approach the banks. Every one of the loan departments were run by men and every one turned us down. We also learned that we had to come up with some money of our own for the bank to help us. I personally had to ask my brother and my father to help me out, as my husband would not.

The last bank we approached had a woman as head of the financial loan department. She not only agreed to loan us one year