wonder what the teachers union has to say?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.
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?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.
Children should never start school.
My daughter ended up waiting until she was 6 going on 7 a few weeks after starting.
Now they have been pressuring us to advance her a grade or two but I wont do it. In my view emotional maturity is much more important than academics. She can always make up not starting college or whatever a few years earlier but she can never make up the lost years of being a kid.
Nonsense. I - all my siblings were reading at age 4. The Queen Elizabeth I was writing in three languages at seven. Mozart was composing piano pieces at the same age.
Children can start learning when they are encouraged - of course, if it’s a crappy public school, they should not go at all.
Except that most kids need some sort of learning well before age five.
My daughter knows her letters, numbers, and is starting to learn words at age 4.