Okay not that I have the experience to really comment BUT some children should not be in pre-k, especially high spirited young boys. Actually high spirited children period ought to be home with mommy till they calm down and can go to school. My good friend's son goes to a Montessori school and he does very well. Other children I know have been kept home because the teacher recommended they be given ADD drugs.
i don't know, maybe my son wasn't particularly highspirited, or maybe he knew he would be punished if i heard he could not behave himself. he is in 7th grade now and will get an occasional demerit for talking in class or acting the fool, and i have told him that if you get yourself pegged as a screwoff that is how you will be perceived. He did it with his spanish teacher and has no hope of anything higher than a B in there, bc she thinks he is a screw off. She is not competent, doesn't speak english very well and doesn't have control of the class. i told him you will have incompetent teachers and bosses in life and you just have to learn to deal, because you can control your own behavior and their incompetence doesn't give you a free pass to act up.