Wait, pre-K makes things worse and starting school later makes things better?
My feeling (totally unsupported by any data) is that they are helpful to different sorts of children. Smarter kids probably benefit more from starting school late and less smart kids probably benefit from drilling abcs/counting/building attention span
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Couldn't you make exactly the opposite argument just as (un) convincingly? Smarter kids would benefit more from starting school early because they can fulfil their potential, less smart kids won't remember it anyway so they might as well start later.
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Maybe. Given the cognitive profile of countries that tend to start formal schooling later, it seems like a practice that works well for smart kids. But perhaps that's just coincidental.
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