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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's a misnomer, but gets to an important idea: in response to some (very real) concerns about literacy, we've been making school more academic and regimented earlier and earlier. Some of those high-performing EU countries don't have compulsory school until age 7 -- but here you can do full-time PK at age 3. [b]When you put a 3-4 year old in an environment better suited to a 7-8 year old, they may learn to read younger, but they may also act out, not be able to regulate, or just decide that school sucks and is boring – and that last one is SUPER hard to undo. My kids learned to read and spell much earlier than I did in the '90s, and DCPS did a great job in that respect. But the oldest started to sour on school circa 3rd grade because, from what we could gather, the environment just wasn't that age appropriate by design. It's less about being a kid longer, than about keeping that curiosity going while their feelings about school take shape.[/b][/quote]

This is key.  When kids are curious and want to learn, that carries forward in life.  Once school sucks, that curiosity dies.[/quote]

My then 3 year old had some very strong feelings about school/PK3 that made me nervous as to what the subsequent school years would feel like. The best thing for him was finding a place where the curiosity and love for learning would sustain. [/quote]

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