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Preschool is not mandatory; it has
been a trend among many parents to send their child/children to
preschool for the daycare aspects about the institution, not the
necessarily the educational benefits. Although preschool is an
early-childhood educational class that is neither statutory nor
obligatory as it occurs before state-mandated compulsory
education, 40 states now offer state-funded pre-Kindergarten
programs and more than 40% of three-year olds and two-thirds of
four-year olds are enrolled in preschool. This continuing
increase in the prevalence and demand for preschools can be
explained by the plethora of studies advocating the importance of

early childhood
education Walnut and its many benefits.

According to the National Institute for Early Education Research,
children who take a year or two of preschool enter kindergarten
with better basic math skills and pre-reading skills as well as
richer vocabularies when compared to children who have not
attended preschool. This is because preschool exposes children to
numbers, letters, and shapes leading to early development of
cognitive and linguistic abilities, which is crucial for future
excelled intellectual and emotional development.

Not only do children who have attended preschool do extremely
well academically, they also tend to be more socially developed
and have superior behavior-management skills. The earlier
children are exposed to other children, the earlier they will
learn how to socialize. In
Walnut preschool,
children learn how to get along with other children, share with
other children, and contribute in a group setting, such as circle
time, which is a common group activity at almost all preschools.
By going to preschool, a child entering kindergarten is already
many steps ahead of his fellow students who did not attend
preschool: the child will already know how to raise his/her hand,
how to take turns, and how to deal with his/her Mommy not being
there at all times. Essentially, preschool makes for a much
smoother transition to kindergarten.

It is quite concerning that in this highly competitive,
modernized, global economy that among all 15 year-olds, American
ranks 10
th in terms of math test scores and 9
th in terms of reading test scores. There have been
numerous studies on early childhood education that support the
idea that by fostering intellectual, emotional, and social
developments in children from an early age, there is less of a
risk that students will go through grade repetition and drop out
and more of a chance that students will have higher and timelier
school enrollment as well as higher test scores.