I like doing some experiments. What subject? all subjects I can do and challenge me to find out and expose the secret. I am 36 years of age now and for 20 years I have been engaged in doing some experiments. Most of them goes successfully and my hypothesis was approved and can be implemented.
One of the results will be discussing here. In 2005, I prepare myself to begin to a research which concerned to 4-years-children. The hypotesis was that 4- to 6-years-children is not ready to go to elementary school.
Based on the curriculum which was implemented for all systems of education in Indonesia at that time, it was in 1994, the changes went worst and far different of in curriculum 1975 to 1991. In curriculum 1975 to 1991, Only 7-years-children could be registered in elementary school and it was not the same as in curriculum 1994 which forced 5-years-children went to elementary school.
In my raw observation, the-5-years-children went worse in studying and some of them (40%) were involved in criminal and bad attitude which was far different of the system or local tradition at that time that should be obeyed. In my opinion, that was because they felt frustrated in school and they wasted a lot of time to hang around and bought unuseful things. Almost 100% complained that the lesson which was taught by the school teachers were very difficult for their children.
In 1999 I taught English subject at PGRI (Private Senior high school) to make comparison and submit a big question : Do the PGRI-students get the same case as the elementary?. After collecting samples and compare the variables I got, I finally found that almost 100% got frustrated. Then I asked a question to myself : "Are the school subjects really difficult to learn?". Then I try to see the teachers which was responsible with the curriculum and found the report and some experts' opinion about the case in newspaper, seeing some relevant or competent persons with it and at last, I found the fact that the curriculum, actually, was designed for the student in the future or 5 years later but had been implemented right now to reach the government target in Education.
Oh my god! How cruel!
For weeks, I could not sleep soundly and thought the solution to solve the problem.
After that, I began again to collect the samples and changed the variables into two main focus of research, namely ;
Var A : 5- to 6-years-children which went to elementary school.
Var B : 7-years-children which went to elementary school.
After finishing semester test, I found that 7-years-children went better than 5- to 6-years-children for most of subjects they learned from their teacher at school. To encertain the result, I had to wait for 6 months again (second semester-test). And, at last, the 7-years-children went the best in all the classes (3 classes which contains 45 students each. I picked 10 children in a class for my samples. 5 children was 7 years old and others was 5 and 6 years old.).
Well, Then I told my wife to take our twin daughters to school when they had been 7 years or 7 and a half. Do you know what the result is. My beloved twin daughters can do the exercises and reach the highest achievement I appointed on their targets' board!.
Would you take your son or daughter to school when they are 5-6 years old? or, even 1,2,3 or 4?
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