Montessori school experiences???

We haven’t taken this approach because my son is autistic and isn’t ready for school yet, but we’ve found it appealing as well and know people whose kids seem to be thriving in it.
But it really just depends on what your goals are for your kid/what you’re hoping they’ll get out of it, and your monthly budget to determine if that tuition is worth it.

I have 8 years of daycare experience with half of that time spent in 2 different Montessori schools, and they are honestly a rip off. Many preschools already follow a Montessori-adjacent structure just because many of the principles are intuitive. On the contrary, Montessori schools don't always follow guidelines to a T either

My daughter had the opportunity to go to same montessori school that I went to and it absolutely thriving.

I guess it depends on the actual school and teacher. My daughter went to Montessori and totally thrived there. Her teacher was amazing.

My 11 year old has been in Montessori since 3. She’s doing very well. Super independent, eager to learn, leader type personality, definitely a go getter and goal seeker. However her school is completely free through the county. It’s lottery based here in my area and thankfully she got it. I’ve been telling as many moms out there of babies so that they can get their kid in

And yes she learns everything and never say ok that’s enough. You’ve learned enough. No they keep pouring more info into them and never stop them from learning more. You have the same teacher for 3 years so it’s easy for the teacher to advance your kid if they show interest in learning more. My daughter was doing kindergarten work in pre-k and had been reading since she was 4. I bought all of the books and different things they use in school for home and she would work with that. Now she’s in 6th grade and in honors classes.

It varies a lot. My nanny went when she was a kid and hated it. My friend’s son loved it.
We visited one when we were considering it for our then almost 2 year old son. We get it’s a feeder school for one of the top private schools but half the kids were still in diapers and they required all day Mon-Friday school for all ages starting at 2. When we got to observe the class they were put on their personal assigned towels on the floor to silently do puzzles on and when finished they brought it to the teachers who would nod and give them another one while another teacher rotated pulling one kid at a time to either go to the bathroom or do a diaper change. They don’t believe in praise. It was a 2 hr daily activity.
Both the dads who were observing called it baby jail.
Both our families chose Waldorf instead.