Has your early childhood field, or even perhaps before it was defined as such, had to fight with educational bureaucracies in the past over, you know, how quickly should children be learning their ABCs versus having a chance for free play? Or is this a new I

think that this has been happening since No Child Left Behind and even probably before.

So there's been a long road of corporations and politicians sort of creating alarm around like, well, we need our children to be able to keep up with the Joneses and the Joneses would be other countries, right? And we're looking at our test scores.

And some of these things are hyperbolic reactions.

And some of them might even have some truth to them.

But the solutions that people have chosen are counterproductive, right? So what they do is they say, oh, we need to teach our kids to read when they're two and teach sight words in 3K.

Or teachers obviously don't know what they're doing.

Renee,