Children who start school with poor school readiness skills have challenges catching up with peers with higher levels of such skills …

„Children who start school with poor school readiness skills have challenges catching up with peers with higher levels of such skills. Some scholars have also indicated that children who were not academically prepared upon school entry were more likely to suffer from social and personal problems such as unemployment, welfare dependence, dropping out of school, and criminal behavior in the following 10–25 year period.“
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Krisztián Józsa u. a., School Readiness Test and Intelligence in Preschool as Predictors of Middle School Success (2022), S. 1.