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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.