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.
We're in the same boat with the handwriting. What a disaster. We even resorted to OT to deal with the handwriting issues. While the OT helped with other issues, it didn't translate to the handwriting. Our handwriting without tears books should be arriving today. I'm hoping it will help. We're going to work on it over the summer. My only concern is that I bought the cursive book, and I just heard that the charter school doesn't push cursive at all. His printing is pretty horrid as well, so maybe I should order the print book too. What do you think?
