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Schoos: I'd be with you on your general point of improving the educational experience of children. The problem is that you only want to improve this experience for children in government-run (i.e. public) schools. Look around. Outside of a few wealthy communities, government-run schools are an abject failure state wide, and the same holds true nationally. This is especially true of districts servicing low income, frequently minority kids in which a disproportionate amount of taxpayer dollars are spent on various preschool schemes. While you wish to rearrange the deck chairs on the SS Government Schools, I would offer that we give these same kids a chance on a different ship altogether. More specifically, give these kids vouchers to attend whatever government, private, or parochial school that best meets their needs as determined by their parents, and not their zip code. In the interim, my observation of full-day kindergarten may very well be "dismissive" and "insulting", but it is also quite accurate. Sorry about that. I'm sure The Blob (a term coined by a former US Secretary of Education to describe teacher unions and middle management beaurocrats) would thank you for overlooking the awkward fact that the Philadelphia full-day kindergarten study was not normalized for parental income or parental education level. Well educated, upper income parents have an uncomfortable habit of giving birth to kids who stay "on track", independent of whether they attended all-day or half-day kindergarten. In short, I do not question that all-day kindergarten is beneficial, as it clearly benefits the day care needs of Warwick parents greatly. But let's not pretend anything more. Fifteen years from now I don't doubt that The Blob will be endorsing the merits of prenatal education. After all, it will be 'for the children'.