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[quote=Anonymous]3 year old DD is in a private Montessori this year. The convenience can't be beat--it's near our house and near her older brother's elementary. But try as we might, we just don't GET the Montessori cult/fixation. The school is just weird, the teachers distant but pleasant at best, and downright cold and controlling at worst. We're not allowed in her classroom, and we feel incredibly awkward every time we go in, lest we violate one of the many "rules." The place is eerily silent: I've never been in a preschool that is so bizarrely quiet. I know that is part of the Montessori schtick, but it just seems so joyless and Stepford-like. I have so sense whatsoever that she is having any fun--with all the "practical life" stuff it seems like all she gets to do is drudgery. (Fold laundry! Pour water! Clean stuff!)

Should we just pull her and find a new program since we're clearly not a Montessori family? The other hitch is that they hold two months of tuition in advance, so we could be out big bucks. How big a deal is it two switch a kid at this age and stage of the year? [/quote]

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