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To: Lane3 who wrote (15205)	3/27/2006 8:44:50 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

I forgot something rather important and expensive- the added materials for the low classes. They usually need special materials, since the ones for the regular classes are above their abilities- textbooks are quite expensive, and with our lower students we often need supplementary materials as well- workbooks, taped books, books written in Spanish, etc. edit- and something else. Remediation classes are often capped at 20- where normal high school classes can go over 30- that means you need even more rooms and more teachers to teach them, because you'll have more classes for remedial classes than you will for regular ed classes with higher enrollment figures per class (assuming you're cutting something that HAS a high enrollment- like geography, and not something with a low enrollment, like an AP class.)

To: Lane3 who wrote (15205)	3/27/2006 10:14:01 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

That's very clear to me. What is not clear to me is why that imposes an added cost, an unfunded mandate. Sigh. Looks as if we'll just have to disagree about our misunderstanding. I've said this as clearly as I possibly can and the Times piece put it as clearly as it possibly could. The effect of the Bush policy is to diminish the nation wide k-12 curriculum. Had they funded at the levels promised, they might have been able to fund the remediation stuff without school systems across the country gutting other programs. As I've said before, I fail to understand why you fail to understand. ;-) I gather you have the same problem. I suspect we've done this to the limit. Onward to other topics.