I'm rather behind with my Nursery Worlds but read 'In my view' (25 August) and agree wholeheartedly with Irene Russell. For ages I've thought that nursery classes take children in too young. In my area they take children as soon as they turn three. This leaves the pre-school I work for, the only one in town, lurching from one term to another, never knowing whether it will be our last. Some of the children are with us for only one term. We barely get to know them and then they're gone.
I'm rather behind with my Nursery Worlds but read 'In my view' (25 August) and agree wholeheartedly with Irene Russell.
For ages I've thought that nursery classes take children in too young. In my area they take children as soon as they turn three. This leaves the pre-school I work for, the only one in town, lurching from one term to another, never knowing whether it will be our last. Some of the children are with us for only one term. We barely get to know them and then they're gone.
In my ideal world children would start pre-school at three, stay for a year to learn the important skills of socialising, sharing, taking themselves to the toilet etcetera, and then go to nursery classes aged four.
I worry that children who are sent to school so early will lose interest in learning and become unpleasant adolescents.
Anne Elliott, Sandy, Bedfordshire
