My gifted son with visual and motor issues had a horrible time in his Montessori pre-school experience. He spent the entire time either bored or frustrated. He wanted to spend the day in the reading corner, or in the classroom with the lower elementary children, but he wasn't allowed. His teacher would gush to us about how he always already knew everything they were going over in circle time, and she just didn't get that that was the heart of the problem. The motor tasks were simply impossible, and there was nothing else for him to learn.