summer slide is a die namic that puts kids behind. so kids turn six, seven, they re already falling behind. any initiatives ultimate bring you would bring to early childhood education? i remember being with a group of teaches again in boston and i said you can predict which students will stay in school and be successful and those that will drop out? and how early can you predict that? and the teachers all began nodding their heads. they said i don t know that i want to have this on camera. we had a camera in the room at the time. so the camera left. and one said if a parent teacher night, fif the parents show up, then the child will be just fine. if the parents don t show up night after night of parent/teacher conference, that kid probably won t make it through high school.