wonder what the teachers union has to say?
Posted on 09/12/2013 7:48:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Children should not start primary school until they are six or seven years old, according to a coalition of education experts who warn of the damaging pressure to perform in class at a young age.
A letter written by 130 teachers, academics and authors said the UK should follow the Scandinavian model and put off formal lessons for two years.
Under the UK’s current system, children start full-time schooling at the age of four or five. Experts say this is causing “profound damage” in a generation which is not encouraged to learn through play. …
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Of course, they should be home with their mothers, learning how to be civilized before entering school. Our scores were higher in the 50s and 60s before kindergarten became the vogue. Some children were seven before they began first grade, and that was especially beneficial for boys.
Now, school is used as a baby sitting service so that mothers can go to work so the government can get more tax money to buy votes from those who don’t work.
I wonder what they think of Montessori schooling, where no age is too young.
/johnny
Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
Bfl
Our youngest son, born in August, could have gone to kindergarten when he was 5. We said, we don’t think so. Waited a year. Never regretted it.
True.
At this point, I think most kids would be better off if they skipped it altogether.
Where Achievement is punished and ridiculed by a apathetic student body and the whole point of the education is to produce barley functioning students so they are more easily swayed to a certain point of view.
That the state is the provider.
That is why all the talk about School Breakfast, School Dinner, make the school day longer.
What do you think Kindergarten Means? You didn't use to start school until you 6 or some almost 7! That is what is called the Age of Accountability.
Woodrow Wilson Said, the point of a University is to make a man as most unlike his father as possible.
Our first son who entered school much later is a far better reader than those who came after and both had pre-school and Kindergarten.
“...coalition of education experts ...”
Probably wrong again .... education experts!!!!!
The WHOLE reason is daycare, for working spouses and latchkey kids.
If we start too late, their parents may have too much influence of their value systems.
wonder what the teachers union has to say?
The bottom line is that children are coming school unprepared in larger and larger numbers.
I agree, let kids be kids.
Looking back at it all, I tend to agree.
I was a latch key from the age of 5.
I learned a lot and have no hard feelings, but I have fond feelings for when it was not so, and I was given tasks on Grammers farm.
It is best to socialize kids within the family before turning them over to strangers.
Cost reductions hitting the European welfare states.
The peasantry will have to pay for their own babysitters longer...as the government schools have become little more.
The indoctrination Titanic has struck the fiscal insolvency iceberg.
Oh the huge manatee.
A barefoot childhood (lots of running around, tree climbing, fort building, “war”, completely unstructured, broken up only by weeding, raking, snow shoveling, grocery carrying, etc. for pocket money) then formal schooling beginning at age 7.
I don’t know that the age is the the biggest factor, I started Kindergarten at close to age six in 1962, my grandson started at close to age six this year. My Mother was a full time Mom in 1962 so school wasn’t a baby sitting service and I seem to recall going to school for more hours a day when I was a Child.
I think the biggest issue is the load we put on our children now. We force them to grow up to fast, jam sexuality in their faces, scare them with global warming and eco fascism. But the worst most debilitating thing they do in school is crush their imagination and individuality.
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