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<b>Schools modeled after the pedagogy of Maria Montessori have long taken an outside-the-box approach to early childhood education that emphasizes creativity, problem-solving, and independence. The Montessori Schools of New York City are continuing this tradition by taking a new approach to student tuition: bitcoin payments.</b>

Montessori Schools co-founder and chairman Marco Ciocca told Town & Country they made the decision after multiple of their “Silicon-Alley”-based parents asked him whether they could pay the $30,950 tuition with bitcoin. After looking into the matter, the school–which has campuses in Flatiron and Soho–decided to partner with Coinbase to become the first pre-kindergarten school to accept bitcoin. As he stated:

"We looked at the pros and cons of accepting it and decided that now is probably a good time because it’s starting to enter the mainstream."

Read more: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/nyc-private-school-began-accepting-bitcoin/