so she comes home from school... then it's said she was 4 years old. at what age do children start going to school in the u.s.?! also she looked older than 4.
shareIn America, kids typically start school at age 5, but some children are capable of starting at 4, and do so. Every great once in a while, someone will start at age 6 or almost 6, but that seems to be the rarest starting age of the three, in my experience.
shareAge / Grade
4 / Pre-K (Pre Kindergarden)
5 / Kindergarden
6 / 1st Grade
7 / 2nd Grade
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17 / 12th grade
I agree with you. The actress looked at least six years old.
shareWhen I was 4 I took a bus to and from preschool. I still remember the bus.
shareThe other issue is who let's a 4 year old take a bus?
I would never let a kid that young on her own on a bus. Her mom was home all day she should have driven the girl.
The daughter makes NO sense, that school bus thing is only one part of it. I made a separate post, it's that stupid.
In any case, you are right - americans (USAians?) are nervous and paranoid enough that they would JAIL someone if they let their kids run free, MANY people have gotten into trouble with 'authorities' because of this, and there are lawsuits going on about it all. 'Notjustbikes' and some others have made youtube videos about the cultural differencers between the USAian-type 'urban sprawl' and 'suburbian hell' and car-centricism versus the European, more human-scaled, relaxed and livable and walkable stuff, where people are not as concerned and can leave their kids outside in a stroller while they go buy stuff from a store. No big deal.
Americans would NEVER let that happen, so why would they let 4-year olds go to school by themselves?
Also, isn't the whole controversial 'busing' stuff for parents that are busy, working, etc.? This woman is AT HOME, doing nothing important that would stop her from bringing and picking up her friggin' 4-year old to and from the kindergarten/daycare/whatever.
It's pretty weird to use a SCHOOL bus to bus kindergarteners anyway, but I am not an USAian, so what do I know. Logically, shouldn't it be a 'Kindergarten bus'?
In Europe, kids can sometimes go to school at a very early age, but I was under the impression that seven is USUALLY the age when kids start going to a proper, actual school.
Still, as I said and pointed out in my post, that daughter MAKES NO SENSE whatsoever, and Beatrice trying to talk to the daughter after the stupidly loud gunshot makes even less sense (guns are SO loud most people wouldn't believe, but movies always make them these peashooters that make a tiny 'bang' and that's it).
Beatrice's and the daugther's ears would be, if not BLEEDING, at least RINGING VERY LOUD FOR A LONG TIME, so there's no way Beatrice should be trying to speak tot he kid WHATSOEVER, the kid wouldn't hear it.
I mean, she just MURDERED her mother, too, so the kid probably couldn't hear anything ANYWAY just due to the shock and horror alone - when something LIFE-SHATTERING happens, people don't usually listen or hear ANYTHING anyone says for awhile, do they?
LET ALONE A 4-YEAR OLD GOD DAMN KID!