I think that many people tend to send their younger children to pre-schools in their neighborhood since preschool is normally only 3 hours at the most. The preschools that I have seen in Rosario run the gamut. I've visited so many and can say that there are few really good preschools but the majority are not great. In retrospect I think my son's preschool actually was detrimental since he had little supervision. Unfortunately, the student teacher ratio is like 12 to 1 for children 3 to 4 years. That would actually be illegal in California where I am from. The public school system in this city varies greatly and there are a few good public elementary school, the majority based on the Normal school model. A bit limited in teaching modality in my opinion, but still good basic education. Everyone I talk to says that education in Argentina used to be FANTASTIC but has declined greatly in the last 10 years. I agree. My husband who is Argentine got an amazing and through education in a public school in a tiny pueblo of less than 5,000.00 people back in the late 70's and 80's. However this same school now has a large drop out rate and most of the kids complain about their school, the teachers and the curriculum. Don't know exactly why these things happen. In my experience here, I think that having a short 4 hour school day for K-6 is a huge disadvantage, unless there is a full time parent at home who is spending at least two hours a day with their children working on literacy and doing homework. I'm a former school teacher so it was interesting for me to see how different some of the public elementary schools are compared to what I am used to.