Hello Amber,
I discovered your post while doing a search for Montessori education. My son is going exactly thru the same issues you described about your son back in 2011. He doesn�t want to work much, he is very social and wants to �play� with his friends the whole time. He can work the materials with the teacher but once she leaves he is gone too to tour the room.
He is mainly doing Practical life and his teacher feels he can�t move up to other material because of his short attention or lack of focus and has mentioned also that maybe he would do best in a traditional school. Like you, I think his teacher is a wonderful person, but she just doesn't get him nor has found a way to captivate him.
Anyway, I saw you decided to take your son out of the Montessori school and I wonder how that worked for you? Did he go to a traditional school? Did he do better in that setting?
I hope everything is going well for you and your son. I would appreciate your answers.
