 and kindergarten, and then it starts to fade sharply in second grade, and by third grade, all the academic studies I've seen show no difference at all. So if you say, but if it doesn't make any difference long term, and the kids still get to where they're going to get to educationally, why do it? And because the monies, I haven't checked to see what Nevada spends on early education, but I'm willing to bet it's in the billions of dollars. And to spend billions of dollars when it doesn't do any good...