AM,,I agree with you. They should be with mom , dad, grandparents,anuts and uncles if at all possible. Nothing wrong with a few hours a week in a private program. We see a big difference in the attention level of kids coming in to kinder because of system socialization . Gives them about a 90 day head start. That is taking into consideration that the teachers in our system have access to unlimited parental volunteer hours to work with the kids that have not seen PreK. My son's K teacher came from inner city Seattle and says there was less than 10% of the parent resource she sees out here. I believe it is state funded daycare in disguise. I think the funds would be better suited to address other issues. We needaccountability that dollars will add up on the back end.