Comments on: Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/delay-kindergarten-at-your-child%e2%80%99s-peril/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Ben https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/delay-kindergarten-at-your-child%e2%80%99s-peril/comment-page-1/#comment-360786 Ben Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:55:49 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26750#comment-360786 Shouldn’t somneone tell the Finns and Swedes, who tend to keep their kids home a bit later than we do, with better results?

Naw, screw it. We’re number one.

]]> By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2011/10/delay-kindergarten-at-your-child%e2%80%99s-peril/comment-page-1/#comment-358406 Alrenous Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:48:04 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26750#comment-358406 So either the logic is sound enough, or it isn’t. If it isn’t, then they’ve failed to prove “school makes children smarter” and we discard the thing.

If it is, it shows that everyone should skip grades. If everyone should skip grades, what are the skipped grades for?

Obviously there’s some limit in reality, but their model implies everyone should take grade 12 at age 5. Enter university at age 6. Everything else was useless nonsense.

The more important issue is whether unschoolers or grade-skippers end up more satisfied with their life overall.

Even if it turns out to be grade-skippers, it has to be shown that the riots that mandatory schooling originally provoked were just peasant ignorance, and not fully justified.

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