That is really funny! That is exactly how we felt. We could not "drink the kool aid," and we ultimately left. It did work for some but it did not work for my older boy. For my younger boy, the Montessori people were genuinely shocked that we pulled him out since they felt he was the "perfect" montessori child.
Our souvenir was that he had horrible handwriting since they never practiced that. I had him do both volumes of Handwriting Without Tears for 6 months, and it pulled his handwriting together.
They had wanted my then first grader to stay in their preK-K room for first grade to "learn more" about Montessori, which we didn't agree with and ultimately we left at the end of the year.
The only satisfying thing for us was that our friend's daughter (who got moved through the program) did not qualify with high enough scores for our G/T program on the OLSAT and my son did.
Last edited by jack'smom; 06/24/12 03:41 PM.
