What Is The Age To Start School?
Perhaps these are moments of anguish and uncertainty. It is a necessary step, but a difficult one to take. What is the age to start going to school? The answer is cause for anguish for parents, even more if it is the first child.
The right decisions will ensure a future compatible with the child’s abilities and the demands of the process that is about to begin.
Parents are responsible for their children’s learning in the first years of life. The home is the safest place where the child begins to develop and master his biological functions; drinking water, eating, walking and communicating are some of them.
With the beginning of classes and school, the child’s adaptation and learning process begins. For this, she needs to feel happy, loved, safe and stimulated.
When the question arises: at what age should I put my child in school, doubts cause the concern to arise. The child will start to be away from home for many hours. At the same time, parents’ professional obligations often drive this decision. But you also need to consider the child’s abilities.
Two years old, the ideal age to place children in school
Between 18 and 24 months, the child begins to have more autonomy. She is already familiar with the practice of walking and utters words. In addition, he has usually played with other children and is able to be away from his mother for some time. The crèche helps to increase this autonomy and prepares the little ones for formal education.
When a child is old enough to go to school, another phase of his life begins. She must integrate into the school environment, in addition to adapting to new schedules, friends, teachers, challenges and learning. It is the time for academic training, values, educational and extracurricular activities. It takes a certain maturity to face these changes.
Compulsory education from the age of four
Recently, in Brazil, education became mandatory between 4 and 17 years old. Previously, compulsory education only started at 6 years of age. However, there must be spaces for all children. Therefore, municipalities and states had until the year 2016 to ensure the inclusion of these children in public schools.
In Brazil, school education is divided into three stages: early childhood education, elementary school and high school.
Schooling is a right for children and adolescents between 4 and 17 years old. It is mandatory and a duty of the State to offer places in public schools.
three stages
Basic education, therefore, is divided into three stages as mentioned above. From 4 to 5 years old, children attend kindergarten.
Elementary education comprises the age group between 6 and 14 years old. And in high school, we have young people between 15 and 17 years old.
University education
Higher education is not mandatory in Brazil. It is offered by universities, colleges, higher institutes and technological education centers, both public and private. Currently, there are three types of training: bachelor’s, bachelor’s and technological training. Access is through entrance exams or by ENEM (National High School Examination).
However, unfortunately, current data reveal that a large part of the population is unable to access higher education, either because of the inefficiency of the mandatory education system – which does not provide children with the means to pass the entrance exams – or because of the scarcity of places, or even by the economic situation of the country that forces many young people to look for their first job at the expense of continuing their studies.
The development of a child’s formal education depends to a large extent on decisions regarding the age at which to start school. Therefore, monitoring the school trajectory by parents is essential to obtain the expected results.
