I'm not sure. I seem to remember her once saying she'd looked at a Montessori but it wasn't gentle enough for her liking. I think there are people on here who are local to her so they will know more.I don’t think the school is necessarily fancy because it’s fee paying, I think it’s more that it adheres to an ethos that P is on board with - is it a Montessori or something like that? And R is only going to attend one day a week anyway
Tbh I think P is primarily motivated by doing the opposite of what the normies do. She can’t bear to be mainstream.
You're definitely right though, she just wants to be different to everyone else.