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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Compulsory Starting School Ages

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-24058227
[quote]In Northern Ireland, the statutory age of entry to school is four.

In England, Scotland, Wales, Cyprus and Malta, the age is five.

The statutory age is six in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

The age is seven in Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia and Sweden

(Figures from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER))[/quote]

That's incomplete and misleading, though, since many (if not all) of those countries have basically universal preschool.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/2013/05/02/62054/the-united-states-is-far-behind-other-countries-on-pre-k/

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Most of them have preschools that they PLAY in though. They aren't worksheet drilled to prep them for standardized testing down the road.

I was just speaking to two teachers at the two elite private schools in our area. Neither are doing Common Core or any of the testing.

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