Originally Posted by Tigerle
Montessori is in many ways the most rigid and inflexible method around - the prepared environment, the one and only way to use materials, the sequence of works - for the method to work for gifted kids, you need the built In flexibility of the mixed age classroom and the individual pacing. The constraints of the age based classroom destroy most advantages the method might have had.

This. My son at 3 year old was not good at rolling and unrolling of little mat where you put the work on. I was told "he cannot proceed academically until he does it." He also had issues with most of the room was off limit to him because he hasn't been presented the lessons yet. We left after a month. NOT a good fit with that teacher/school.