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The sheer apathy to their needs puts tremendous pressure on little children. Consider the following facts:

In most cases the entry age into play schools is only about two years, when most children are neither toilet trained nor can they convey their messages adequately.

Most play schools across the country conduct admission tests for selection of children. Admission tests cannot serve as valid measures to test children's merit at this tender age. But they can do a lot of harm.

What harm can admission tests do to little children?
An admission test is meant to select children on the basis of merit.
It makes children perform tasks like reading, writing and number work for which they are not yet ready.
It destroys a child's self-confidence and self-esteem by giving him/her a bitter taste of rejection.
It deprives children of their happy, carefree childhood.

Most play schools include the teaching of the 3Rs (formal reading, writing, and arithmetic) as part of their curriculum. Children of this age group are not yet ready for these activities. They can learn these at a later age with much less time and effort. Premature teaching of these activities may a) make them lose interest in learning b) may lay weak foundations, since learning, if at all, will be rote learning c) may lower their self-confidence because chances of failure in learning the 3Rs at this stage is greater than the chances of success.

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