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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Primary Day School. Not sure about number of recesses though.[/quote]

Second that about Primary Day; plenty of playtime (2 recesses + PE) and very strong curriculum in reading and math.  Not for every child though, [b]it is expected that your child will be reading in their prek year[/b].[/quote]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I find this astonishing.  The expectation that children be able to read at this age flies in the face of most accepted thinking by education academics.  I actually find it a little hard to believe that this is an expectation from any decent school (although I can certainly understand many parents pushing for it). [/quote]

Your view (I am not the previous poster) is most certainly a Western/American one. In Asia, kids are all reading at some speed or another, by 4, and the better ones reading at least just words at about 3.5. Obviously this means that children of that age CAN do it, but it is this classic American/Western style of holding kids back that makes this sound so astonishing. Offtopic: Kids in Asia btw are also potty trained before 2. It is very much a western thing to keep a diaper on at that age (and beyond. Yuck). [/quote]

I don't know if it holding kids back or not pushing them.  BTW - when I was in Beijing about 10 years ago, none of the babies I came into contact with wore diapers; they were bare bottomed.  But then again every middle class family I visited with also had full-time help of at least one.  I would hesitate to also generalize to ALL ikds in Asia.  In China there is still a lot of illiteracy with characters especially in the rural areas where most of their population still is; maybe they can read words.[/quote]

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