In early years children develop an astonishing range of synaptic connections. These are solidified or weakened throughout the years that we get them at Joeys, and then they begin to shed them in their millions into early adulthood. This is the scientific proof that we need to make us look at what their primary schools are doing with them. I will say that I am seeing evidence that primary and junior schools are rorting Naplan (and we know why they do it) and sometimes what we think we know about the skills of our incoming students turns out to be inaccurate.