Reading and Weeping
October 23, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care, Mental Health
I am a Canadian living in Germany. I am a stranger in a strange land. I like to think of myself as an open-minded person, but there are some things I just can’t get my head around to accept. Most things I reconcile as “different, but equal.” Some things remain “different, but worse.” For me, one of those things is the German educational system.
Where I live, children start first grade when they are six. For children, like my son, who were born between August and December, they can actually start closer to their seventh birthday. Sure, kids go to kindergarten, …read more
