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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Re: Daycare centers. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 13:48:32 EDT
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I agree with Scott Preece that most kids are well able to deal with
school before the age of 5 or 6. In fact, I suspect that one reason
kids tend to dislike school is that they are not allowed to go at the
time they are most keen to learn.
  My daughter went to an English kindergarten school at 3:8, where
she was taught the 3 R's along with a certain amount of rest and
recreation (5 Rs?) from 9:00 till 3:30 5 days per week, and she loved
it. When we returned to Canada a year later, we enrolled her at a school
which claimed to "really work the kids hard, because they enjoy it."
The school day was from 9:30 to noon. After 3 weeks my daughter came
back complaining she was terribly bored: "When are we ever going to
be allowed to work? All we do is play with clay and draw all day."
She never really recovered the enthusiasm she had shown in England.
By the time that "hard-working" Canadian school got around to teaching
readin, ritin, an rithmetic, she had to be persuaded to do the work
that previously she loved. (PS She seems to have come out of it OK
in the end).

Martin Taylor