Dear kava:

If you remove your child from her current school where she is “well-adjusted, happy kid overall.. does well in the traditional public school routine, makes excellent grades, and has friends… happy and comfortable”- if you remove her from there and place her in the Montessori school, she will see it as a punishment, as something bad happening.

And so, all the things you value about the Montessori school, she will see those things as bad things, part of her punishment. You will be turning her against all the things you want her to value as positive things.

anita