If you’re a parent, you may remember the struggle to find good, affordable child care and slots in preschool: waiting lists, eye-watering prices and a gnawing uncertainty about whether you found someplace safe and sound. Finally getting to kindergarten was a relief. Slowly, and now quickly, public education is fragmenting into something that looks scarily like our dysfunctional child care system. The stress you felt for the first four years could last for 18.