You can't just programme like this. My friend's child has gone through the same private school from kindergarten to 6th form. He kept his place throughout -but at each stage, pre prep, prep, senior school, sixth form-children were asked to leave,because they were not up to standard, and they were replaced by higher achievers from elsewhere. Parents were paying for this and so obviously wanted them to succeed. If Gove was correct it is appalling that a school should have a child from 3 yrs and then say they were not good enough- they jolly well should have been! The way the school put it was that 'they were more suited to a different school'. Gove appears to think you can shape every child the same way.
I can't see why we want to be like the Japanese,with parents desperate to get the 'right' kindergarten so that they end up at the 'right' university. The 'competitive mummies' who obsess about reading levels in reception will get worse! It really doesn't matter which reading band they are on at that age it is more important to be able to listen to instructions, be able to dress themselves etc.
Interestingly the exercise class that I went to this morning had a punching exercise and our teacher said 'imagine someone you want to punch!' The immediate response was 'Michael Gove' and the one dissenter was drowned out by the agreement of everyone else!