A child at age 3 is just learning how to walk up and down stairs, can barely control their bladder or feed themselves properly. Would it make sense to put this child in school? Compulsory attendance or mandatory kindergarten at the age of 3 is not the way to improve academic excellence. In fact, it may harm the development of young children to force them into the school system at a young age. This essay will prove that formal schooling at the early age of 3 will not only fail at enhancing child development, but will also violate a parents right to parent their child, cost huge amounts of m…