We deliberately timed our move from Britain to Denmark just before our daughter was due to start school in the UK, simply because our experience is that the British schools are hammering on the kids.
In Britain there are even state school league tables and this creates intense competition for places at the "best" schools and for schools to concentrate on grading the children from the start. My Dad worked in a junior school and it was common knowledge that the teachers of kids this age hated doing it. Along with that, my nephew in the UK is 5 and after being off ill in his first year his mother even got a letter complaining that his attendance was below 95%!
The downside of being in Denmark is moving somewhere else where the education system requires your kids to start younger because your kids are, temporarily at least, well behind.
I'd suggest anyone coming to Denmark considers sending their children to a private school. Teachers are more motivated and our daughter is so much happier since she switched...even doing a letter a day instead of one a week (!). Sounds flash, but the state subsidises it and we only pay 550 krone a month, and with the SFO in, it actually works out cheaper than the state school! You can read about it here .
By the way, one of the most hilarious books I've ever read on the reality of the modern British education system is It's Your Time You're Wasting by a teacher...anonymously!
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