This whole thing just hurts my heart. When my kid was BORN, my sister was telling me to look into preschools NOW, because if you wait until it's almost time for them to go in, they are all filled up. I thought.... wait, she is still new! I am not ready to think about sending her away! We have homeschooled since the beginning, and have never regretted it. The mentality that you are biding time until your kids are handed off to someone else for programming is so prevalent and disturbing.