The three-year-olds with homework

By Eryk Bagshaw, Kelsey Munro
Updated October 20 2016 - 1:13pm, first published September 26 2016 - 4:15pm
Nicholas Quaratiello and Freya McQueen are taking "school readiness" classes. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Nicholas Quaratiello and Freya McQueen are taking "school readiness" classes. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Lennon Tropiano, Freya McQueen, Nicholas Quaratiello and Peter Kriezis at the Keep Learning centre in Leichhardt. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Lennon Tropiano, Freya McQueen, Nicholas Quaratiello and Peter Kriezis at the Keep Learning centre in Leichhardt. Photo: Louise Kennerley

It is 9am on Friday and four-year-old Nicholas has bowled up to class in Leichhardt's Italian Forum, he's shyly holding a piece of paper in his hand. It's his homework, he says, as he presents it to his "school readiness" teacher, Violeta Dimeska.

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