After following an online forum about local concerns in the NWCT area about fewer than 60% of students going onto the public regional high school from six elementary schools, I offer the following ideas. I wrote at length 20 years ago about the early school years and family time being important to nurturing children.
Of course now daycares are 'filling that role of caring for kids' from infancy on for many due to necessity or wanting to work for one's steadfast income from that (rather than run a home daycare or otherwise do one's own trades or pay for childcare to a personal provider for one