Italian education system

1. Infant school.
Infant school – a school for children between the ages of about zero and six.
The attending of this school is not obligatory (parents can decide to register their children in accordance with the needs), and it’s divided into:
Asilo nido (kindergarten): attended by 0-to-3 years old children;
Scuola materna (preschool): attended by 3-to-6 years old children.
From 6 to 16 years of age, attending school becomes obligatory, as established by the law, and we enter the so-called scuola dell’obbligo (compulsory education), that starts with primary and elementary school.…