Kinder at Age of 5

Education is a right. The constitution states that every Filipino child should go to school and must be in school, at age of five.

Yes, as early as five years old as required to attend schooling under the K-12 curriculum where K stands for kindergarten, all pupils are required to undergo kindergarten before they entered Grade-1.

As stated in the Dep Ed Order No. 21 series of 2012, enclosure number 1, only children who are 5 years old by June and until October of the same year will be eligible for admission.

At this level, pupils are taught how to mingle and socialize with others. Unlike before, there was the eight-week curriculum applied for kindergarten. Now, it is made easier and simpler than what the curriculum used to be. There are only the so- called meeting time, snack time, the small and group activities.

All these are upon the implementation of the K-12 curriculum, which is mandated by the law, even the private schools must adhere with this law, and this was already signed by the president of the republic.