Article: Ban kids from starting school until they turn five to ensure they don't fall

[Trillian]

And some kids can absolutely do the academic bits, but can't handle the social side, or aren't able to sit quietly in a classroom for any real length of time, or a hundred other elements that teachers - and particularly early primary school teachers - have to negotiate every single day.

Yeah we do, and some of that can be avoided if kids weren't at school before they needed to be. I have to make sure that every single kid I teach can access the curriculum and often the biggest stumbling block for that is the parents.

ETA - and the whole point of a national curriculum was so that education in this country was the same standard no matter where you went - if you moved from WA to NSW your child would be learning the same curriculum outcomes. So it makes sense that there should be a national school starting age.