Until very recently in human history 100% of childcare operations were unlicensed, and this was better in every way than a government bureaucracy run system.
I'm actually wondering if the program will make a big dent though. One issue with formal childcare arrangements is that the hours tend to not be flexible. Parents who have to work til 6 some nights, or who have nontraditional work schedules in general may not be better served by the state's option.
Also, I'm not even against state support for parents needing childcare, but giving $500 a month to each parent who needs it to find childcare in an informal system will actually be much better than a state run system that spends $2000 per kid.
We have things like licensing because we're handing off our children to perfect strangers, and want some level of assurance that it's not going to be a disaster.
Having standards in training, operation, and oversight of childcare seems just as important as safety standards in the food supply. Even though everybody cooks at home, you're not allowed to run a restaurant without certifications and inspections either. And thank goodness.
btw analogy is not a good way to win arguments.
1. Some point.
2. Counterpoint.
3. Countercounterpoint.
4-10. Belabored analogies that people argue about.
11-15. Weird blood-and-soil stuff.
[edit] And in what world is Abraham Lincoln considered "the poor" for his times? I am sure you can come up with some less fortunate people during the same times which didn't really get the experience of that one room schoolhouse.
In the world where he was born on the frontier in a log cabin, which is this one.
And it seems I need to spell it out for you, right there in the US during the same times, children of black people in the south didn't get access to education[1]. Serfdom was a thing in Europe until the early 1900, serfs children didn't get access to proper education[2]. I'm giving you a link to Russian education, but the whole of Eastern Europe was at a similar level. I don't know what kind of rose tinted cool aid you guys have been drinking.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_during_the_slave_per...
Places like the South that didn't want to do that found themselves on the receiving end of losing a war, and now it's universal across all of America.