Some friends of our's had a kid who transferred into a Montessori school after a couple years in regular school.

This extremely well behaved child (I wish my kid was as calm and well behaved) came home every day stressed out about how he was rated behaviorally - kids either get put in red (bad), green (normal), blue (very good) and the teacher never put him in blue. He never said anything about learning.

So they moved him to a Montessori school and when he came home, he excited about what he learned or did that day at school.

This anecdote led my wife and I to enroll our child in the same school, her first day was yesterday. I really hope my kid comes home excited about what she accomplished and learned as well.