Elite, competition, prestige, academies ... are terms that little child understands or should understand. However, it seems that parents care a lot, because otherwise it is not understood that there is nurseries that establish an intelligence test to admit their little students.
These are private schools in New York that take a test of math and language concepts aimed at four-year-olds, some of whom are not too simple with the naked eye.
exist academies specialized in preparing these children whose parents want them to go to these schools and charge money for each class. It is not something new.
The Admission Assessment for Beginning Learners, “Admission Assessment for Beginning Students”, is a type test that they have been using the most exclusive private schools in New York for 45 years to evaluate their youngest students. The novelty this year is that the test is more difficult.
A test that obviously discriminates against less trained children (and parents with less economic possibilities, but that's another issue, we talk about private schools). And that instead of making the entrance to school gradual and kind, puts obstacles and prepares the child for competition.
And it's not just about detecting gifted children, since there are schools specialized in high capacities. In this case, it gives the impression of "wanting to create" gifted children ... and for this a "training" is established, a preparation in academies.
Honestly, I am sorry that such small children are given an intelligence test to enter a school that prepares them directly to compete, to stand out, in which they are valued for their knowledge and achievements and not for their skills or their particularities Not to mention the time spent studying and not the game. In the end, only "the best" will enter the school.
But, What is it to be better at these ages? Know more? To be a better person? Be happier? It is clear the standard with which it is measured in this case, which reminds me of the concept of "excellence" that is again on the table after the controversial Wert Law of Education. Anyway, when your neighbor's beards see cut ...
