Is it better for a child to go to first grade at the age of six or at the age of seven? Why?

Parents or other legal guardians of children who have reached the age of 6 shall send them to school to receive and complete compulsory education. At present, it is common practice in schools everywhere that children who have reached the age of 6 by August 31 of that year can enroll in the first grade of primary school, while children born on September 1 will not be able to enroll until the next year. In other words, the legal age for entering elementary school is 6 years old.

It is generally accepted that children have the basic conditions for learning knowledge only when they are about 7 years old. As a result, most countries in the world have a legal mandate to go to school at the age of seven. However, in reality, due to China's large population, fierce competition, and modern children's nutrition is relatively perfect.

Children's intellectual level develops rapidly, and some children can reach the intellectual level of about 7 years old at the age of 5 or 6. But not all of them can achieve it.

Mental arithmetic and addition and subtraction only represent the child's level in this area, and cannot represent the overall level of intelligence, such as reading comprehension and learning transfer. In addition, the physical fitness of children is also a problem, and the physical fitness of 5 or 6-year-old children is not as good as that of 7-year-old children. It is better for children to go to school when they are nearly 7 years old.

Burden reduction measures:

According to the CCTV news client, the Ministry of Education held a press conference in 2021 (August 30) to introduce the teaching of primary and secondary education in the autumn semester.

In order to effectively reduce the pressure of students' examinations, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Administration of Examinations in Compulsory Education Schools", which put forward requirements such as accurately grasping the function of examinations, greatly reducing the number of examinations, rationally using examination results, and improving the evaluation of the learning process.

Examinations in the compulsory education stage mainly play the functions of diagnosing learning and teaching conditions, improving and strengthening teaching, and evaluating teaching quality. The "Notice" clarifies that there will be no paper-and-pencil examinations for the first and second grades of primary school, and the school will organize a final examination for other grades every semester.

7 years old first grade is better.

Generally speaking, children around the age of 7 are much more stable than children at the age of 6, and at the same time have a clearer understanding of the things around them, and can also concentrate more easily in class, which means that the learning effect is better. On the contrary, many young children spend most of their time in school adapting to learning, and the specific effect is average, which can easily dampen their enthusiasm for learning.

In addition to the characteristics of education, primary education also has unique basic characteristics: first, it is universal; the second is obligation; The third is comprehensiveness.

Primary educational institutions first emerged in Germany in the 16th century, and were run by towns to teach practical knowledge and Protestant doctrine.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, such schools gradually increased and became institutions for compulsory education. After the bourgeois revolution, the countries of Europe and Japan were also founded.